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GADDIS v. SMITH

No. A-11825.

417 S.W.2d 577 (1967)

Dorothy GADDIS et vir, Petitioners, v. William C. SMITH et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 26, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Huff & Bowers, Robert W. Gauss, Lubbock, for petitioners.

Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam, Max C. Addison, Evans, Pharr, Trout & Jones, Charles B. Jones and David Hughes, Lubbock, for respondents.

HAMILTON, Justice.

This is a summary judgment case, wherein petitioners, a patient and her husband, sued respondents, two doctors, for damages allegedly resulting from leaving a surgical sponge inside the patient's body while performing a Caesarean Section.

Petitioner Dorothy Gaddis and her husband filed suit against respondents on February 21, 1964. They alleged that respondents performed the Caesarean Section upon Mrs. Gaddis on or about January 7, 1959...

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