Goheen v. Graber

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, J.:

This was an action by a surviving husband to recover for the wrongful death of his wife, alleged to have resulted from the negligence and malpractice of defendant physician and hospital.

The appeal is from the order of the trial court sustaining defendants’ separate demurrers to plaintiff’s evidence.

Plaintiff’s wife died in childbirth, and the petition charged defendant physician with the following acts of negligence and malpractice:

That he was late in arriving at the hospital and permitting her to be immediately placed in the labor room…