RICHISON v. NUNN

No. 34496.

57 Wn.2d 1 (1959)

340 P.2d 793

ROY E. RICHISON et al., Respondents, v. DR. LESLIE L. NUNN et al., Appellants.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

June 18, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McMullen, Snider & McMullen, for appellants.

Kennett, McCutcheon & Soderland and William C. Klein, for respondents.


ROSELLINI, J.

This is a medical malpractice action. The complaint alleged that the defendant doctor (who will be referred to as the defendant) had negligently sewed a nerve into soft tissue adjacent to the surgical incision which he made for a hernia operation performed upon the plaintiff wife (who will be referred to as the plaintiff) in June, 1952; that he negligently failed to discover that he had so sewed a nerve into soft...

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