Opinion · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Ward v. Garvin
328 Pa. 395
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania
- Date
- 1937-12-09
- Topic
- litigation
How later courts describe this case
- wrong diagnosis of injury to foot
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Per Curiam,
Plaintiffs, husband and wife, seek recovery of damages from defendant, a physician, upon a claim that he made a mistake in diagnosing an injury to the wife’s foot. The court below entered a compulsory nonsuit, which it refused to take off, relying upon our decisions, the latest of which is Duckworth v. Bennett, 320 Pa. 47, 181 A. 558, where we held that a physician is not responsible for an error of judgment or a mistake in diagnosis in the treatment of a patient. The action of the court below was correct.
Judgment affirmed.