Legal Opinion
Washington Hospital Center v. Butler
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided September 29, 1967No. Nos. 20368, 20369PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:
These appeals emanate from a judgment1 on a verdict for appellee, as administrator of the estate of his wife. Beatrice H. Butler, against appellants,2 a hospital and a partnership of radiologists maintaining a laboratory in the hospital premises,3 in an action charging negligence contributing to a fall by and resulting injuries to Mrs. Butler during the course of diagnostic X-irradiation in the laboratory shortly before her death,4
Mrs. Butler, who had been receiving treatment from her personal physician for diabetes, became a patient in the hospital…
2Cases cited49 opinions
- Sweeney v. ErvingSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Sanzari v. RosenfeldSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1961
- Parrot v. Wells, Fargo & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1873
- Miller v. Union Pacific R. Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1933
- Smith v. YoheSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1963
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3Cited by45 opinions
- Jerry W. Canterbury v. William Thornton Spence and the Washington Hospital Center, a Body CorporateCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
- Edward C. Denneny and Catherine Denneny v. Bernard Siegel, Louis H. Block and the Albert Einstein Medical CenterCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1969
- Morrison v. MacNamaraDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1979
- Hazel Morgan Hicks v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
- Sinai v. Polinger Co.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1985
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