Legal Opinion
Ayers v. Morgan
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 21, 1959No. Appeal, 106PublishedCited by 275 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Musmanno,
On April 20, 1948, the plaintiff in this case, Chester A. Ayers, underwent, in the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, an operation for a marginal jejunal ulcer. He was discharged from the hospital on May 4, 1948, but the operation did not afford him the relief he had anticipated. On the contrary, he experienced pains in his abdomen which continued for several years. On January 3,1957, he returned to the hospital for a series of tests, hoping that science might discover the cause for his unceasing discomfort. It did. At the spot which seemed to him to be the…
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