Legal Opinion
Trammell v. City of New York
New York Supreme Court
Decided September 17, 1948PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRubenstein, J.
Motion to strike out two affirmative defenses. Plaintiff sues to recover damages as a result of an allegedly unauthorized autopsy performed by defendant upon the body of her sister following the latter’s death in the Kings County Hospital.
As a first affirmative defense defendant alleges that plaintiff’s sister was present as a patient in such hospital from November 11 to 24, 1947, when she died “ of undetermined cause that “ pursuant to Chapter XXXIX of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, the Department of Hospitals notified the office of the chief medical examiner of the City of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Finley v. . Atlantic Transport Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1917
- Beller v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1945
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