DILL v. SCUKA

Civ. A. No. 20539.

175 F.Supp. 26 (1959)

Kenneth V. DILL v. Clayton L. SCUKA, M. D.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lester H. Novack, Dennis, Lichtenstein, Cohen & Dennis, Philadelphia, Pa., Marshall Miller, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Thomas E. Comber, Jr., Pepper, Bodine, Frick, Scheetz & Hamilton, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


EGAN, District Judge.

Essentially this is an attempt to fasten vicarious liability on a treating doctor who called in a specialist, with the patient's consent, to perform an aortogram, in which effort the expert was unsuccessful, the attempted aortogram having been performed by the expert in the absence of the treating doctor who did not assist in any way at the time.

Secondarily, plaintiff seeks to impose liability on the treating doctor on the ground that...

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