Foos v. Steinberg

On November 27, 1962, appellants, Anna E. Foos, et vir, filed suit in the Superior Court of Baltimore City against ap pellee, Doctor Murray Steinberg, alleging medical malpractice. On January 3, 1963, appellants, pursuant to an order of court, filed an amended declaration which was the same as the original declaration except that it corrected the appellee’s name and address. The acts of malpractice were alleged to have occurred when the appellee failed to remove a surgical sponge from appellant’s vaginal cavity following an operation in April of 1959, to repair a rectovaginal fistula. In…