Keane v. Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research

— In a medical malpractice action, plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Putnam County (Dickenson, J.), entered June 17,1981, which, after a jury trial, was in favor of defendants. Judgment reversed, on the law and the facts, with costs, and new trial granted on all issues. This action arises out of alleged acts of negligence in the performance of surgery upon plaintiff John Keane on February 25, 1952, while he was a patient at defendant hospital. Mr. Keane was admitted to defendant Memorial Hospital on February 21, 1952 after having been diagnosed by a Florida doctor as…