Legal Opinion
Haile v. Sutherland
Court of Appeals of Minnesota
Decided August 17, 1999No. C9-99-415PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SHORT, Judge.
After discovering benign tissue from her left breast had been removed during surgery, Mihret Haile sued David Sutherland, M.D., the University of Minnesota, and S. Fitzsimmons, R.N. (collectively “respondents”) for medical negligence and battery. Haile appeals from the trial court’s summary dismissal of both claims.
FACTS
On September 26, 1995, Haile underwent surgery at the Boynton Surgery Clinic of the University of Minnesota to remove a mass from her left chest wall and another mass from her left axilla (armpit). In preparation for this procedure, Haile signed an…
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