TASSE v. KAUFMAN

Docket No. 16386.

54 Mich. App. 595 (1974)

221 N.W.2d 470

TASSE v. KAUFMAN

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided August 12, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ripple & Chambers, P.C. (by John J. Grech), for plaintiff.

Harvey, Kruse & Westen, P.C. (by James D. Hunter and James N. Martin), for defendants.

Before: J.H. GILLIS, P.J., and ALLEN and ELLIOTT, JJ.


ELLIOTT, J.

Plaintiff appeals a directed verdict for defendant dentist and his professional corporation. While a variety of claims were pleaded, plaintiff narrowed trial to a single issue: whether, during oral surgery, defendant dentist "poked a hole" into the maxillary sinus permitting bacteria to enter and infect it. The only witnesses were defendant dentist, called under the statute and court rule, and an osteopathic...

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