Tabor v. Scobee

MILLIKEN, Justice.

Macine Tabor, a minor twenty years of age, submitted to an operation for appendicitis by the appellee, Dr. R. II. Scobee. During the operation the surgeon discovered that his patient’s Fallopian tubes were full of pus, swollen and sealed at both ends. Unable to obtain the consent of his patient to their removal because of her anesthesia and not obtaining the consent of his patient’s stepmother, who apparently was in the hospital at the time, the surgeon proceeded to remove the tubes on the theory that they would have had to come out “within six months anyway if I was not…