FAIRLEY v. DOUGLAS

No. 20471.

76 So.2d 576 (1955)

Walter FAIRLEY v. Dr. Karl L. DOUGLAS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Orleans.

January 3, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence de Lucas and W. W. Young, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff and appellee.

Lemle & Kelleher and Carl J. Schumacher, Jr., New Orleans, for defendant and appellant.


McBRIDE, Judge.

On October 27, 1953, plaintiff engaged the defendant, a dentist who had practiced his profession in New Orleans for the past twenty-four years, to remove an impacted wisdom tooth. Plaintiff now seeks recovery for the damage claimed to have resulted from alleged negligence on the part of defendant in leaving a fragment of steel or other metal which had broken off of one of defendant's dental instruments in plaintiff's lower left third molar socket....

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