Legal Opinion
Matteson v. Thiel
Washington Supreme Court
Decided April 22, 1931No. 22703. Department OnePublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
Mr. and Mrs. Matteson brought this action against Henry F. Thiel, M. D., for damages on account of alleged negligence in a surgical operation on Mrs. Matteson. She had an abdominal operation in 1915, and two others for the same trouble, one in 1922 and another in 1923. All of those operations were by surgeons other than the defendant. In June, 1927, the defendant operated on her for the same malady. After this operation, she suffered pain in her "lower left abdomen until June, 1929, when another surgeon removed a round, curved, surgeon’s needle from her lower left abdomen.
Defendant admitted…
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