In re the Claim of Davis

Feely, S.

Claimants, who are members of the surgical staff of a local hospital and professors in the medical school connected therewith, having performed a major surgical operation on the decedent as an out-patient in the hospital, without knowledge that he was at the time a very wealthy man, united in presenting a joint claim of $2,000 for their services against his estate. Under a statement of stipulated facts this court first decided that they were entitled, as a matter of law, to the reasonable value of their services. (132 Mise. 466.) Thereupon testimony was taken bearing on the standing…