Thomson v. Virginia Mason Hospital

This is an action for malpractice. The appellants, Thomson, are husband and wife. The respondent Virginia Mason Hospital is a corporation, and is engaged in the business of conducting a hospital. The respondents I). H. Houston and A. H. Gray are physicians and surgeons, and engage in the same line of general practice; they are associates, rather than partners, and work under an agreement to the effect that, when one of them is called to attend upon a patient, and is unable at the time to answer the call, the other will attend the patient for the time being. In 1924, Mrs. Thomson became…