Klinge v. Lutheran Medical Center of St. Louis

SIMEONE, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiff-appellant Fred W. Klinge, M.D., from a judgment entered on September 10, 1973, by the circuit court of the City of St. Louis which dismissed an injunction suit seeking to restrain defendant-respondent Lutheran Medical Center of St. Louis and its agents from examining the hospital records of plaintiff’s patients for the purpose of determining the qualifications of plaintiff. For reasons hereinafter stated, we affirm the judgment.

Dr. Klinge is a physician, having graduated from a well-known medical school in 1942. After serving as an…