Legal Opinion
Becker v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided January 10, 1957PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFroessel, J.
This is an action to recover for personal injuries claimed to have resulted from the administration by a hospital nurse of an intravenous injection of a dye used for X-ray purposes. Plaintiff was admitted to Morrisania City Hospital on September 19, 1951, acutely ill from a kidney ailment diagnosed as ureteral calculus and pyelonephritis. He was then 29 years old and had immigrated from Poland two years pre*228viously. During that period he had been admitted to Morrisania on two other occasions, when he received treatment for the same ailment, including cystoscopy, intravenous pyelograms and an…
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- Sheehan v. North Country Community HospitalNew York Court of Appeals · 1937
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