Legal Opinion
O'GRADY v. Brown
Supreme Court of Missouri
Decided August 16, 1983No. 64734PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PUDLOWSKI, Special Judge.
In January of 1979, appellant Terri O’Grady was nine months pregnant with an expected delivery date of January 25, 1979. During her pregnancy she had been under the care of respondent doctors Robert Brown and Robert Slickman; her prenatal course- was uneventful. On January 15, 1979, appellant began experiencing severe back pains. She spoke with one of her physicians by telephone and then proceeded to St. Joseph Hospital where she was admitted shortly after midnight. 1 During the course of the 24 hours following Terri O’Grady’s admission, her uterus ruptured and the…
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