Legal Opinion
Berardi v. Menicks
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 12, 1960PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
The sole question for decision is whether, in this action of tort brought in one count by Mary Berardi for malpractice and in another count by her husband for consequential damages, the judge erred in ordering verdicts for the defendant. Mary Berardi will be referred to hereinafter as the plaintiff.
A summary of the relevant evidence shows the following: On January 15, 1955, the defendant, a dentist practising in Cambridge, made an examination of the plaintiff’s teeth at his office and informed her that two of her wisdom teeth “could come out and that she could report to the hospital the next…
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