Legal Opinion
Street v. Hedgepath
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided June 23, 1992No. 89-CV-181, 89-CV-1331PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERRY, Associate Judge:
These are consolidated appeals in two separate but related cases. In Street v. Hedgepath (“the Hedgepath case”), appellant Joseph Street sued Dr. Leslie Hedge-path, his late wife’s physician, for medical malpractice allegedly resulting in Mrs. Street’s death from cancer. 1 The case proceeded on the theory that Dr. Hedgepath breached the applicable standard of care by failing to diagnose Mrs. Street’s thyroid cancer in time to prevent its fatal spread to other parts of her body. After a trial before Judge Hamilton, the jury was un able to agree on a verdict, and the…
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