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SALGO v. LELAND STANFORD ETC. BD. TRUSTEES

Docket No. 17045.

154 Cal.App.2d 560 (1957)

317 P.2d 170

OLGA SALGO, as Administratrix, etc., Respondent, v. LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

October 22, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Rankin, Peart, Baraty & Hassard, George A. Smith and Richard G. Logan for Appellants.

Thomas J. Cunningham, Mark Owens, Jr., Lawrence Howe, Jr., Paul G. Gebhard and Vedder, Price & Kaufman as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellants.

Fitz-Gerald Ames, Sr. and George Olshausen for Respondent.

Melbert B. Adams, Ashe & Pinney, Richard A. Bancroft, Robert D. Barbagelata, Frank J. Baumgarten, Philander Brooks Beadle, Melvin M. Belli, Marion P. Betty, James F. Boccardo, Andrew Bodisco, Harold C. Brown, Lionel T. Campbell, Victor E. Cappa, R.A. Carmazzi, Ben C. Cohen, Nathan Cohn, George F. Cooke, Albert E. Deasy, J.N. Nick DeMeo, Louis F. DiResta, J.J. Doyle, A. Don Duncan, Ernest E. Emmons, Jr., Andrew J. Eyman, Jack Flinn, Leo Fried, Myron L. Garon, Charles R. Garry, Richard F. Gerry, Emmet Hagerty, Michael L. Haun, Hirson & Horn, Newell J. Hooey, Theodore A. Horn, Vernon W. Humber, Ralph Leon Isaacs, Carroll F. Jacoby, William A. LaHanier, Leland J. Lazarus, Lenz, Jarvis, Miller & Decker, Lewis E. Lercara, Edward Levin, Mildred W. Levin, Morris Lowenthal, Paul E. Madden, Joseph F. Mannion, Jack G. McBride, Malcolm N. McCarthy, Francis J. McTernan, Jr., Robert C. Mires, Charles P. Molinari, Jackson E. Nichols, Oliver, Good & Sloan, Myer M. Penn, W.M. Pinney, Jr., Edward I. Pollock, Pollock & Pollock, James P. Preovolos, James C. Purcell, James J. Reilly, Michael Riordan, Harry C. Rogers, Samuel A. Rosenthal, Maurice C. Ryan, Thomas C. Ryan, Eugene E. Sax, Roy A. Sharff, Morton L. Silvers, Albert F. Skelly, Albert F. Taddeucci, Bergen Van Brunt, Anne Varakin, Jack H. Werchick, Ralph Wertheimer and Arthur C. Zief as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.

BRAY, J.

In a malpractice action the jury awarded Martin Salgo1 the sum of $250,000 against defendants Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees, Stanford University Hospitals,2 and Dr. Frank Gerbode. The trial court reduced the award to $213,355. All defendants appeal from the judgment entered thereon.3

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