Legal Opinion
Sawyer v. Methodist Hospital of Memphis
District Court, W.D. Tennessee
Decided September 10, 1974No. C-73-163PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
WELLFORD, District Judge.
Plaintiff Lois Sawyer and her husband, Kentucky residents, have sued defendants Methodist Hospital, Dr. Battle Malone, a Memphis surgeon, and Duck-worth Pathology Group, Inc., a medical group composed of pathologists practicing in the Methodist Hospital at Memphis for damages claiming that defendants’ actions, negligent and/or wrongful, caused her to contract serum hepatitis while being operated on and treated for a hernia and gall bladder condition. The claim was at the outset based on strict liability in tort, breach of warranty, express or implied, and…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Washington Hospital Center v. ButlerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1967
- Stottlemire v. CawoodDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1963
- Haskins v. HowardTennessee Supreme Court · 1929
- Kay McDaniel v. Baptist Memorial HospitalCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1972
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Lois Sawyer and David Sawyer v. Methodist HospitalCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1975
- Doe v. American Red Cross Blood Services, S.C. RegionDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 1989