Young v. College of Physicians & Surgeons
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. The instructions given to the jury are set forth in the opinion of the Court. At the trial, the plaintiff offered the following prayers which the Court below (Phelps, J.), rejected: Plaintiff’s ist Prayer. — The plaintiff prays the Court to exclude from the consideration of the jury all of the evidence of Dr. Edwin Geer and Dr. N. G. Kierle, in so far as the same tends to show that the said Keirle acted in holding the alleged…
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. The instructions given to the jury are set forth in the opinion of the Court. At the trial, the plaintiff offered the following prayers which the Court below (Phelps, J.), rejected: Plaintiff’s ist Prayer. — The plaintiff prays the Court to exclude from the consideration of the jury all of the evidence of Dr. Edwin Geer and Dr. N. G. Kierle, in so far as the same tends to show that the said Keirle acted in holding the alleged post-mortem examination by order of the said Geer, coroner, and in so far as the testimony of the said Geer tends to show that in…
1Opinion of the CourtRoberts, J.
The plaintiff below (who is now appellant), brought suit against the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore City, Dr. Nathaniel G. Keirle and Dr. Edwin Geer. In her declaration she averred that the body of her deceased husband was wrongfully and unlawfully taken in charge by the defendants, and cut and mutilated and used as a subject for the students of the defendant college without warrant in law; and that the defendants wrongfully and unlawfully detained the dead body from burial, when demanded for that purpose by the plaintiff; and that the cutting and mutilation of the body was…
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