Henline v. Southward

Citations

• 99 Wash. 232
• 169 P. 315

Syllabus

<p>Evidence—Expert’s Opinion—Admissibility. Upon an issue in an action for malpractice as to the cause of the death of a baby at childbirth, expert evidence that the symptoms indicated water on the lungs is properly rejected, where there was no satisfactory evidence establishing that cause of death as a basis for predicating such an hypothesis for the admission of expert testimony.</p> <p>Physicians and ' Surgeons—Malpractice—Actions — Evidence— Sufficiency. The evidence in an action for malpractice is not sufficient to show that the cause of the death of a baby at childbirth was strangulation, where the only evidence to that effect was the testimony of the mother who supposed the baby sucked its lungs full of water when it was delivered face downwards, and expert witnesses testified that the death might have been due to four other causes.</p>