Walstad v. University of Minnesota Hospitals

GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, Donna Walstad and Lawrence Walstad, wife and husband, appeal from a judgment entered on a directed verdict at the close of plaintiffs’ case in favor of defendants. Plaintiffs’ complaint in this diversity ease alleged negligent care and treatment by the physicians concerned and by the University Hospitals.1 In passing upon the directed verdict by Judge Philip Neville, both federal and Minnesota law require us to view the credibility of the evidence and any inferences which may reasonably be drawn therefrom in a light favorable to the adverse party.

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