Legal Opinion
Blackburn v. Baker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 20, 1929PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
Defendant is a physician. Plaintiff has recovered for malpractice. A small piece of gauze, with a metal snap attached, called a pack-off, was left in plaintiff’s abdomen at the close of an operation performed by the defendant. His connection with the case began when he was called in consultation and found the plaintiff suffering from some acute abdominal condition, which he diagnosed as a ruptured Fallopian tube caused by an extra-uterine pregnancy, or acute appendicitis. At two-thirty o’clock in the morning he directed her removal to a hospital, and the operation was performed shortly after…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Pike v. . HonsingerNew York Court of Appeals · 1898
- Goldstein v. . Pullman Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1917
- Winner v. LathropNew York Supreme Court · 1893
- Baker v. WentworthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- Alteresko v. PhillipsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1924
3Cited by11 opinions
- Funk v. BonhamIndiana Supreme Court · 1932
- Gravitt v. NewmanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985
- Pipers v. RosenowAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1972
- Saint Paul-Mercury Indemnity Co. v. St. Joseph's HospitalSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1942
- Critelli v. Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical CenterAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985
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