Grimsby v. Samson

This is an appeal from the dismissal of a complaint for failure to state a claim.

Appellant Arne M. Grimsby (plaintiff) filed a claim for damages based upon the “tort of outrage” said to have arisen out of his wife’s death. Decedent’s physician, Dr. Werner E. Samson, and the Ballard Community Hospital, where decedent met her death, were named as defendants.

Plaintiff alleged he was the husband of the decedent and that a patient-physician relationship existed between Dr. Samson and the deceased. He asserted further that the doctor negligently, recklessly, wantonly and outrageously breached that…