Dillard v. Rowland

WEIER, Judge.

Plaintiff Burl Dillard, a physician and surgeon, filed suit against the defendant Trustees of Barnes Hospital because of their failure to retain plaintiff on the medical staff of Barnes Hospital when the annual appointments were made effective June 30, 1969. In Count I of the two count petition, Dillard sought to have the court declare that the Trustees abused their discretion in failing to retain him on the staff; then, upon making this determination, to compel the Trustees to permit plaintiff to admit and treat patients in the hospital. In Count II Dillard sought to establish…