CLARDY v. DUKE UNIVERSITY

No. 8466.

299 F.2d 368 (1962)

Thomas F. CLARDY, Appellant, v. DUKE UNIVERSITY, a corporation, and R. Charman Carroll, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace McGregor, Washington, D. C., on the brief for appellant.

Harry DuMont, Asheville, N. C. (Uzzell & DuMont, Asheville, N. C., on the brief), for Appellee Duke University.

William C. Meekins, Asheville, N. C. (Meekins, Packer & Roberts, Asheville, N. C., on the brief), for Appellee R. Charman Carroll.

Before BOREMAN and BELL, Circuit Judges, and PREYER, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

In this diversity action, Thomas F. Clardy charges that on and before April 1955 he was under the professional care of defendant Carroll, an employee of Duke University, and that he sustained permanent brain damage from electric shock and insulin shock therapy recommended and administered by Dr. Carroll at Duke University Hospital as treatment for a mental disorder. Clardy complains that "about August 1957" he...

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