Brewer v. . Ring and Valk

Plaintiffs sought to recover damages for malpractice of defendants, physicians and surgeons, in wrongly and negligently diagnosing the feme plaintiff's pregnancy as a case of fibroid tumor of the uterus or an ovarian tumor. There was much evidence taken at the trial upon the questions of negligence and damages as to each of the two defendants, and the jury returned the following verdict:

"Were the plaintiffs injured by the negligence or want of skill of the defendants, or either of them? Answer: `No.'"

There were two other issues as to the damages each of the plaintiffs was entitled to recover,…