Sorensen v. Balaban
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Siegbert Balaban, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 6tli day of June, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of Queens, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 8th day of June,, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
The plaintiff was the mother of one Clara 0. Eelson, now deceased. The deceased was an infant, unmarried, in the service of her mother, her father being dead. The defendant is -a physician and attended said Clara in her last illness. The action is brought on substantially two causes of action. The first charges the defendant with malpractice in his attendance on the patient, by reason of which said Clara died. The second cause of action charges that, after the death of Clara 0. Eelson, the defendant maligned her memory by repeating to the plaintiff, and to divers othór persons, a…
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