Legal Opinion
Dorothy R. McCord v. John Patrick Maguire
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 28, 1989No. 88-3627, 88-3628PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:
Dorothy R. McCord sued Dr. John Ma-guire for medical negligence. The court submitted eight specifications of negligence to the jury, which returned a general verdict in the amount of $1,856,648.39. Maguire appeals. He contends that four of the specifications of negligence submitted to the jury were unsupported by substantial evidence. As the general verdict may have rested on one or more of those four specifications, he claims that the jury verdict must be reversed.
Facts 1
On February 6, 1985, Maguire performed elective surgery to remove McCord’s gallbladder. During the…
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