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SILVERHART v. MOUNT ZION HOSPITAL

Docket No. 28231.

20 Cal.App.3d 1022 (1971)

98 Cal. Rptr. 187

ALICE SILVERHART, Plaintiff and Appellant v. MOUNT ZION HOSPITAL, Defendant and Respondent.

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

November 5, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

David P. Weaver, Jr., and Jay R. Mayhall for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Chris G. Gasparich and Raoul D. Kennedy for Defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

MOLINARI, P.J.

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment for defendant hospital in an action for damages allegedly sustained by plaintiff when a surgical needle broke during a surgical operation and became permanently lodged within plaintiff's body.

In December 1964 plaintiff entered defendant hospital for a vaginal hysterectomy to be performed by Dr. K. Warren Newgard, a specialist in the field of obstetrics...

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