RAMSLAND v. SHAW


341 Mass. 56 (1960)

166 N.E.2d 894

GERALD F. RAMSLAND vs. JOHN E. SHAW & others (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 5, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Woodbury F. Howard, (Edward J. Duffy, Jr., with him,) for the plaintiff.

Leon F. Sargent, (John F. Dunn with him,) for the defendants.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, & CUTTER, JJ.


SPALDING, J.

These are two actions of tort for malpractice. In one, a physician and two surgeons are defendants, and in the other the defendant is a nurse. Verdicts in favor of all of the defendants were directed. To these rulings and to several rulings on evidence the plaintiff excepted.

The evidence reveals the following. The defendants are Dr. John E. Shaw, an anesthetist, Dr. Lewis S. Pilcher, the senior visiting surgeon at the Newton-Wellesley Hospital...

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