Bernath v. Lefever

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stern,

Plaintiff was a victim of malignant destructive myopia. Notwithstanding long-continued treatments, her condition grew progressively worse, and she was threatened, as to her right eye at least, with practical blindness. Defendant, who had been her oculist for several years, advised an operation on the right eye, and, her consent being given, he operated on January 9, 1930. The procedure, according to defendant, consisted in “what we call needling, breaking the capsule which holds the lens, breaking into the capsule and breaking up the lens to some extent so that the…