McLennan v. Holder

This is an appeal from a judgment in the sum of $7,500 rendered by the court sitting without a jury against defendant for negligently losing and leaving a gauze sponge in the pelvic cavity of plaintiff upon whom he performed an operation in a hospital in La Jolla, in the city of San Diego, on March 22, 1932, for the removal of a badly infected tumor.

Plaintiff was a young married woman of large stature. So far as she knew she had been in good health until about six weeks before the operation. Besides herself her household consisted of her husband and two stepchildren. She cared for the members…