Foran v. Carangelo

This was an action in four counts brought against the defendant, an obstetrician, for breach of contract in his manner of providing professional care and treatment to Nora Foran, the wife of the named plaintiff.

In each of the first two counts it was alleged that the husband had requested the defendant to provide the wife, who was then pregnant, with obstetrical care and treatment, both prenatal and at delivery; that the defendant entered upon that service; and that as a result of the defendant’s “unworkmanlike” treatment, the wife died in the late afternoon of March 9, 1960, the same day on…