Agnew v. City of Los Angeles

Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment for defendant Larson entered on a verdict of a jury in a malpractice action. This ease had been previously tried and resulted in a judgment of nonsuit. On appeal the judgment was reversed (Agnew v. City of Los Angeles, 82 Cal.App.2d 616 [186 P.2d 450]) and the matter retried, resulting in the judgment here appealed from.

Defendant Larson is a physician and surgeon, specializing in surgery, licensed to practice in the State of California. Plaintiff had been a patient of his on a number of occasions from 1920 or 1921, the last in 1942. Pie had also treated…