White v. Diamond

FRANK A. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

On October 17, 1968, Lawrence V. White, plaintiffs’ minor son, was gravely injured in an automobile accident and was hospitalized. On March 2, 1970, Lawrence was transferred from George Washington University Hospital, where he had been since the date of the accident, to defendant University Nursing Home [UNH], and was placed under the care of defendant Dr. Leopold Diamond. On December 22, 1970, Lawrence White, aged 11, died.

On December 27, 1971, Leroy White, Lawrence’s father, a citizen of the District of Columbia, filed suit in the Superior Court of the…