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STAPLES v. WASHINGTON

No. 1840.

125 A.2d 322 (1956)

Evelyn G. STAPLES, Appellant v. Walter L. WASHINGTON, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided September 14, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dovey J. Roundtree, Washington, D. C., for appellant. Julius W. Robertson, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellant.

J. Joseph Barse, Washington, D. C., with whom H. Mason Welch and J. Harry Welch, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, HOOD, Associate Judge, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired), sitting by designation under Code, § 11-776(b).

ROVER, Chief Judge.

This was a non-jury action against the appellee, a dentist, for damages alleged to be attributable to malpractice. Appellant charged that the dentist was negligent in the extraction of her lower left wisdom tooth and also in his standard of treatment both before and after the extraction. Conflicts in testimony obscure much of the true factual picture, but the fact was undisputed that only a partial removal of the tooth from its socket was achieved...

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