Raleigh, Dec. 5—After 26 hours the jury trying the Nash case against Dr. Hubert A. Royster, in which the Raleigh surgeon is defendant in a $25,000 damage suit growing out of alleged neglect of Miss Sue White Nash, returned this afternoon with a verdict of $6,000.
The first jury hearing this case in Franklin county disagreed, and it appeared that this one was due to go the same way. The suit was based on the contention that Dr. Royster, who had the young girl in the hospital, delayed the operation until a serious disease developed, and that the surgeon shortly after the operation left for the Mayo Brothers Clinic in Rochester, Minn., leaving the patient in the care of other doctors.
The result of the disease is a crippled leg. There is conflicting testimony in some aspects of the post-operation, but virtually all medical opinion hypothetically based was that Dr. Royster waited the proper time for the operation and then gave all the treatment that could have been given, either directly or through specialists as well qualified to treat the disease as himself.
It was remarkable that in Nash county, where the plaintiff was known and the defendant less known than in Raleigh and Wake, there was no verdict, and in Raleigh where the defendant stands as high as any man who has ever lived here, he gets an adverse verdict, the plaintiffs being unknown. The case will be appealed.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Dec. 6, 1924
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