OPINION
OTIS, Justice.
This is a malpractice suit seeking damages against a surgeon for having left a sponge in plaintiff's chest cavity following a thoracotomy. The verdict was for defendant, and plaintiff appeals from the judgment and from orders denying judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial.
On January 28, 1964, defendant removed from plaintiff's lung a cancerous tumor about the size of an orange. The day following the operation...
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