Parker v. City of Highland Park

Plaintiff Vincent Parker fell through a glass storm door on September 12, 1970. He was treated for serious lacerations on the back and neck at the emergency room of Highland Park General Hospital, a municipal hospital operated by the City of Highland Park. In 1972, Vincent Parker and his father, Casey Parker, filed a malprac*190tice suit against the hospital; Physicians Emergency Service, the corporation which operated the emergency room; and the doctor who had treated Vincent Parker.

In their complaint plaintiffs alleged that the treating physician had failed to take X-rays, that Vincent Parker…