Stack v. Wapner

SPAETH, Judge:

This is a medical malpractice case in which a jury returned a verdict in the amount of $40,000 against all of the appellants after an eight-day trial.1 In a thorough and scholarly unreported opinion, Judge McDevitt denied appellants’ motions for judgment n. o. v. or for a new trial. We affirm.

The evidence, which is fully summarized in the trial judge’s opinion, showed that appellee2 was admitted to the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia on August 16, 1962, to give birth to her fourth child. At the time of her admission, she was under the care of appellants Wapner,…