BALDOR v. ROGERS


81 So.2d 658 (1954)

Dr. Julian F. BALDOR, and First Palma Cela Hospital, Inc., a corporation, Appellant, v. J.T. ROGERS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

On Rehearing March 23, 1955.

Further Rehearing Denied June 3, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benedict F. Fitzgerald, Jr., Washington, D.C., for appellant.

McEwen & Cason and James M. McEwen, Tampa, for appellee.


THOMAS, Acting Chief Justice.

The appellee was awarded a verdict of $65,000 in his action against the appellant, a physician, for malpractice in treatment of a malignancy.

It was charged in the complaint that the appellee engaged the appellant to treat a growth on his lip which had been present about two months and had been diagnosed as cancer. The appellant prescribed injections for the malady. In nine months the...

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