JAMISON v. DEBENHAM

Docket No. 19664.

203 Cal.App.2d 744 (1962)

21 Cal. Rptr. 848

WILLIAM G. JAMISON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. MARTIN W. DEBENHAM et al., Defendants and Respondents.

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

May 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell P. Studebaker, William Steinberg and Abraham Berry for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Peart, Baraty & Hassard, Robert D. Huber, Clark, Heafey & Martin and Gerald P. Martin, Jr., for Defendants and Respondents.


AGEE, J.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered upon an adverse jury verdict in a malpractice action against the doctor who operated upon him and the hospital where the operation was performed. The correctness of the diagnosis of plaintiff's condition and the advisability of the surgery which followed are not in question.

The operation involved a resection of the sigmoid colon and required a large incision in the lower part of the abdomen. The incision...

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