Lercara v. Paccione

Plaintiff, then sixteen years of age, underwent at the hands of defendants an operation for the removal of a congenital soft cataract from her left eye.' Several months theretofore defendants had removed a similar cataract from her right eye. Upon the prior operation, which was successful, the process employed was by needling, an operation consisting of a series of insertions of a needle from time to time whereby the aqueous matter is gradually absorbed.

Defendants sought to remove this cataract in the left eye by means of an operation known as a “ combined linear extraction,” which, according…