Kemalyan v. Henderson

Plaintiffs brought this action against two defendants, a doctor and a hospital, to recover damages for injuries suffered by plaintiff wife during the administration of an anesthetic preparatory to a surgical operation in which her tonsils were to have been removed.

Throughout this opinion, in order to avoid confusion, we will refer to plaintiff wife as plaintiff, to the defendant Dr. Henderson, as the doctor, and to defendant Deaconess Hospital, located at Spokane, as the hospital.

The trial court’s instructions submitted to the jury the question of whether the nurse-anesthetist (employed by…