WOODS v. BRUMLOP

No. 6913.

377 P.2d 520 (1962)

71 N.M. 221

Beulah Anne WOODS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Elsa A. BRUMLOP, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

October 4, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McAtee, Toulouse, Marchiondo, Ruud & Gallagher, Adams & Calkins, Albuquerque, for appellant.

John E. Hall, Albuquerque, for appellee.


NOBLE, Justice.

A jury awarded Beulah Anne Woods $5,889.58 damages against Doctor Brumlop for malpractice, and the decisive question is whether testimony of the plaintiff was admissible as to the cause of a claimed loss of hearing and whether in the absence of medical testimony that the treatment prescribed caused a loss of hearing it should have been submitted to the jury as an element of damages.

The action originally was against Doctor Brumlop and Doctor...

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