ATKINS v. HUMES

No. 394.

107 So.2d 253 (1958)

Frank B. ATKINS and Rebecca Atkins, an Infant, by Frank B. Atkins, her father and next friend, Appellants, v. Karl T. HUMES, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

Rehearing Denied September 29, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dayton, Dayton & Luckie and Norma Jean Wagner, Dade City, for appellants.

P.B. Howell, Bushnell, and Savage & Mills, Ocala, for appellee.


KANNER, Chief Judge.

The trial judge in a malpractice action granted summary judgment for appellee, a medical doctor engaged in the practice of his profession in Bushnell. The basis for the action was a permanent injury to the infant-appellant's arm and hand as the result of alleged negligent treatment by appellee. The judgment thus entered is the source of this appeal.

A uniformly recognized definition of "`Malpractice,' as the term is used with reference...

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