Willard v. Hutson

This is an action for malpractice against two physicians in which .the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $40,000 compensatory damages and the defendants have appealed. At the time of the alleged negligent conduct the plaintiff Daniel Willard was an infant eight months old. He was a victim of hemophilia ① and the charges of negligence relate to the act of one of the defendants in retracting the foreskin of the child’s penis, thus causing it to bleed and bringing about the loss of a portion of the organ known as the frenulum, and to the failure of the defendants thereafter to use…