Rytkonen v. Lojacono

Plaintiff had judgment of $8,000 in action for negligent medical malpractice.

Her husband,- a druggist, contracted tuberculosis in 1925. On advice of the Mayo clinic he entered a sanatorium in Colorado and remained a year. On leaving, he was advised to continue pneumothorax treatments and to see defendant for them. Defendant was in charge of Morgan Heights Sanatorium, a county tuberculosis hospital at Marquette. After two months at the sanatorium under defendant’s care, deceased returned home but continued to receive pneumothorax treatments from defendant monthly from February, 1927, to…