Legal Opinion
Douglas v. Bussabarger
Washington Supreme Court
Decided March 28, 1968No. 37823PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFinley, C. J.
This is a suit for damages for personal injuries brought against a doctor who performed an operation to repair a stomach ulcer of the plaintiff-wife, and against the drug company which supplied a portion of the anesthetic used in the operation. The plaintiff-wife will be referred to hereafter as though she were the sole plaintiff.
The results of the operation mentioned above were partly beneficial and partly disastrous to the patient. Her gastric symptoms were alleviated, but when the plaintiff recovered consciousness, her lower trunk had lost feeling or sense of touch, and she could not move…
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