Guilmet v. Campbell

In these early weeks of 1971 an exuberant new majority of a once great appellate court prepares to launch an unwarned, unprecedented, wholly gratuitous and destructively witless war of “contract liability” upon a brother profession which, by the multifold harassment of malpractice actions, has been forced already to undertake what is professionally known as “defensive medicine.”1 What the statewide impact will be, when today’s majority opinion is released, is not difficult to foresee. The five Justices composing this new majority should be forgiven, for demonstrably they know not what they do…