Legal Opinion
Humphers v. First Interstate Bank
Oregon Supreme Court
Decided March 6, 1985No. A 82-09-05889; CA A28047; SC S30908PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLinde, J.
We are called upon to decide whether plaintiff has stated a claim for damages in alleging that her former physician revealed her identity to a daughter whom she had given up for adoption.
In 1959, according to the complaint, plaintiff, then known as Ramona Elwess or by her maiden name, Ramona Jean Peek, gave birth to a daughter in St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon. She was unmarried at the time, and her physician, Dr. Harry E. Mackey, registered her in the hospital as “Mrs. Jean Smith.” The next day, Ramona consented to the child’s adoption by Leslie and Shirley Swarens of Bend, who…
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