Scheinberg v. United Medical Service, Inc.

These three companion test cases, presenting common questions of fact and law, on stipulation and order were tried together to the court. Although the amounts sought are nominal, altogether only $303 for the three actions, decision may affect innumerable hospital, medical school and physician-patient relationships and substantial sums. Determination of important questions of first impression whose solution has little, if any, guiding precedent is involved.

Plaintiffs are duly licensed physicians. They are professors of medicine, full-time salaried teachers on the faculty of Yeshiva…