Legal Opinion
Lewis v. Owen
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 15, 1968No. 9541PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PICKETT, Circuit Judge.
This action was brought by Martha Cramer Lewis, Guardian of Richard Fields, a five-year-old child, and Dennis Fields and Joan Fields, parents of the child, against H. Leo Owen, a physician in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to recover damages alleged to have resulted from the failure to properly diagnose and treat the child for a disease which caused him to be mentally retarded. The complaint alleges causes of action for breach of contract and for negligence. The trial court treated the parents’ action as one in tort, and held that their claim was barred by the Oklahoma…
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