Legal Opinion
Mazer v. Lipschutz
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 30, 1963No. Nos. 14238-14239PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIGGS, Chief Judge.
Jurisdiction in the suits at bar is based on diversity and jurisdictional amount. The operative facts occurred in Pennsylvania and the law of that Commonwealth therefore is applicable. The jury could have found the following from the evidence.
Israel Abrams was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Drexel Institute and was admitted to The Albert Einstein Medical Center, Southern Division, in Philadelphia, on December 17, 1957, on the surgical service of Dr. Benjamin Lipschutz for elective1 gall bladder surgery. Professor Abrams was placed in Room 807. On the same day…
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