Kaufman v. Israel Zion Hospital

The essence of plaintiffs’ complaint is that after the birth of their child at the defendant hospital the attending physician, who is a codefendant herein, and the hospital, by its agents, servants and employees, first represented that the child was of the female sex and a few days later the plaintiffs were told that the child was of the male sex. Without asserting any claim that the child given to them was not theirs, the plaintiffs seek damages of $25,000 against each defendant, claiming that they “ suffered severe physical and mental anguish, feeling that the child given to them is not…