Legal Opinion
Owen v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided June 21, 1976No. 76-4PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
John A. Fogleman, Justice.
David A. Owen underwent abdonimal surgery by Dr. F. M. Wilson, assisted by Dr. Henry S. Keisker, on February 6, 1969, in the operating room at St. Bernard’s Hospital in Jonesboro. On June 10, 1975, Owen and his wife filed the complaint in this action against Drs. Wilson and Keisker and employees of the hospital, alleging that the physicians negligently closed the incision made for the operation without removing a surgical instrument they had introduced into his body and that the hospital employees had negligently failed to count the surgical instruments used. The…
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