JOSEPH v. W.H. GROVES LATTER DAY SAINTS HOSPITAL

No. 8557.

7 Utah 2d 39 (1957)

318 P.2d 330

CHARLES JOSEPH, FOR HIMSELF AND AS GUARDIAN AD LITEM FOR HIS CHILDREN, TAMARA LEE AND MELANIE, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLANT, v. W.H. GROVES LATTER DAY SAINTS HOSPITAL, A CORPORATION, AND DR. J.H. CARLQUIST, DEFENDANTS AND RESPONDENTS.

Supreme Court of Utah.

November 26, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George H. Searle, Elias Hansen, Salt Lake City, for appellants.

Ray Quinney & Nebeker, Albert R. Bowen, Salt Lake City, for respondents.


CROCKETT, Justice.

Ten days following an operation for the removal of a tumor, Mrs. Lucille Joseph died in the L.D.S. Hospital of a "lower nephron nephrosis" (inflammation of the kidneys). Plaintiff, her husband, brought this action for himself and children, alleging that the hospital had negligently administered a transfusion of incompatible blood which brought on the kidney infection, proximately causing her death.

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