MAYERS v. LITOW

Docket No. 22305.

154 Cal.App.2d 413 (1957)

316 P.2d 351

AIDA MAYERS et al., Appellants, v. SIDNEY S. LITOW et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

October 15, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robertson, Harney, Drummond & Dorsey and David M. Harney for Appellants.

Reed, Callaway, Kirtland & Packard, Dryden, Harrington, Horgan & Swartz and Vernon G. Foster for Respondents.


FOX, J.

This is an action by a husband and wife for damages predicated upon alleged malpractice arising out of a thyroidectomy performed on plaintiff wife by defendant Litow. The trial court granted judgments of nonsuit in favor of both the doctor and the hospital. Plaintiffs have appealed.

Mrs. Mayers first met Dr. Litow in 1951 when he performed a hysterectomy on her. In 1952 he removed her gall bladder. She had had a nodule on her neck for several years...

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