Moon v. Phipps

— Joanna Moon had never met Dr. Woolery until the day after her stroke. Sixty-one years of age, widowed, and living with her 91-year-old aunt in the latter’s home, she awoke the morning of May 19, 1962, to find her entire left side parályzed; she could move neither her left leg nor arm. Her aged aunt called Dr. Woolery the next day and he said that the stroke had taken place about 24 hours earlier. In his first examination, he noted that Mrs. Moon was moderately confused but not comatose, paralyzed on her left side from an acute cerebral accident or stroke; and in a severe state of physical…