KEMNITZ v. SEMRAD

No. 1-88-1495.

565 N.E.2d 1 (1990)

206 Ill. App.3d 668

151 Ill.Dec. 730

John E. KEMNITZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Emanuel SEMRAD, M.D., Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

Rehearing Denied January 17, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Resis and Victor J. Piekarski of Querrey & Harrow, Ltd, Chicago, for defendant-appellee.

Jeffrey E. Martin, Karlin and Fleisher, Chicago, David A. Novoselsky and Kathleen M. Krist, David A. Novoselsky & Associates, of counsel, for plaintiff-appellant.


Justice GORDON delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County refusing to instruct the jury on one of the issues raised by him in his medical malpractice action for a nerve injury resulting from surgery to repair a fractured humerus. Plaintiff contends that the trial court erred in refusing to instruct on his issue of whether defendant had improperly retracted the radial nerve during surgery to repair a fractured...

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