Merritt v. Deaconess Hospital

Plaintiff sues for injury to her eyes allegedly the result of the combined negligence of the defendants or the negligence of any one of them, which she claims occurred, during the course of a surgical procedure in January, 1973. In her complaint filed in. January, 1974, she sues the hospital, the anesthesiologist, and a physician. The physician named in her complaint was Dr. Giles A. De-Coursey, .but he was dismissed from the case, with prej-. udiee, on November 26, 1974, upon proof (1) that he died *8in May, 1973, and (2) that he had neither performed the operation nor ever entered inte any…