Mercer v. Sunhwan Chi

McGIVERIN, Justice.

This appeal involves three evidentiary problems which arose in the trial of a medical battery tort action based on alleged lack of consent by plaintiff Patricia Mercer to administration of a medical test in diagnosis of her condition. She appeals from judgment entered on a jury verdict for defendants, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Dubuque Radiological Associates and physician Sunhwan Chi, and claims trial court improperly admitted evidence which she asserts is irrelevant to the issue of consent. We affirm the trial court.

On August 11, 1974 Mercer was brought to the emergency…