Williams v. Hofmann

The central issue presented by this appeal concerns the constitutionality of sec. 155.06 (7) (c), Stats., 1 a section of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, which immunizes persons who act in good faith in accord with the terms of the act, from civil or criminal liability. The provision was interposed as an affirmative defense to the complaints of plaintiff-appellant Lee E. Williams, in which he seeks damages on behalf of himself and his wife’s estate, arising out of allegedly wrongful conduct connected with the removal of his deceased wife’s kidneys for transplantation in a live donee.…