Straube v. Larson

This is an action for damages brought by a medical doctor against the chief administrator of Emanuel Hospital as well as another medical doctor and two residents in training in radiology at the hospital, charging a successful conspiracy by the defendants to deprive plaintiff of his staff privileges in the hospital. Plaintiff appeals from a summary judgment for defendants.

Plaintiff is a radiologist and was a partner in a firm of radiologists, Lloyd Center X-ray. The partners were employed by the hospital as the sole persons doing the hospital’s radiology work. As a member of the hospital…