Helland v. Bridenstine
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Rice, J., entered November 6, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, for $4,000, for personal injuries received through the malpractice of a physician.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
The respondent, a widow, brought this action against the appellant, who was a physician and surgeon in active practice in the state of Washington, to recover for injuries received by her arising from alleged mal*472practice on the part of the appellant. The alleged malpractice consisted of the use in and on her genital organs of unclean and unsterilized instruments, whereby there was communicated to her a loathsome disease technically known as gonorrhea, from which she suffered great bodily pain and mental anguish to her damage in a large sum of money.
The appellant answered the complaint…
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