Foreman v. VER BURGGHEN

OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, J.:

This appeal from a judgment on a directed verdict for the defendant physician in a malpractice suit seeks to have us overrule our former holding in support of the “locality rule” in Lockhart v. Maclean, 77 Nev. 210, 361 P.2d 670. This we decline to do for the reasons stated in that case. The trial court’s direction for a verdict for defendant was based on that decision. In this there was no error. NRCP 50.

It is true that the first concurring opinion in that case stated that it “should not be taken as precluding us, in a proper case in the future, from re-examining…