Shields v. King

This cause came on to be heard on an appeal on questions of law; transcript of the docket and journal entries and original papers from the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County; a partial transcript, of the proceedings; the assignments of error; the briefs; and the ¿rguments of counsel.

The decedent, Frank Shields, was suffering from chronic glomerulonephitis, a kidney disease. While decedent was awaiting a kidney transplant, he underwent, on several occasions, a procedure known as hemodialysis, whereby waste products were removed from his blood by filtering it through a hemodialysis…