Bell v. Sigal

Deen, Judge.

Mrs. Bell filed an action against two physicians for the death of her nine-year-old son, due to their alleged wilful and gross negligence in treating him for a respiratory disorder and of the codefendant hospital in failing to furnish proper emergency treatment, seeking damages for the full value of his life. She and her husband then filed a second action in the same court against the physicians alleging the same factual course of conduct and death and that the treatment was a breach of the defendants’ contract with the plaintiffs to use "that degree of care and skill commonly…