FERRARA v. GALLUCHIO


5 N.Y.2d 16 (1958)

Eleanor Ferrara et al., Respondents, v. Anthony C. Galluchio et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 25, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter G. Evans and Joseph Kane for appellants.

William L. Shumate, James S. Regan, Jr., and William F. X. Geoghan, Jr., for respondents.

Judges DESMOND, DYE and FULD concur with Chief Judge CONWAY; Judge FROESSEL dissents in part in an opinion for modification in which Judges VAN VOORHIS and BURKE concur.


Chief Judge CONWAY.

Plaintiff wife, who was suffering from bursitis in the right shoulder, received a series of X-ray treatments from defendants, doctors specializing in X-ray therapy. After the third treatment she experienced a nauseous feeling. She told one of the defendants about it before he administered the fourth treatment. He prescribed certain pills which she purchased and took. At the conclusion of the...

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