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MORSE v. MORETTI

No. 20826.

403 F.2d 564 (1968)

Earl Q. MORSE and Mrs. Earl Q. Morse, Appellants, v. Dr. Frederic A. MORETTI and Doctors Hospital, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 25, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Dale L. Button, Bethesda, Md., for appellants.

Mr. John L. Laskey, Washington, D. C., for appellee Doctors Hospital.

Mr. Walter J. Murphy, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. John L. Ridge, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee Moretti.

Before EDGERTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and McGOWAN and LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

The plaintiffs in a medical malpractice suit appeal from a judgment based on a directed verdict for the defendants. They say the case should have gone to the jury.

Appellants are husband and wife. While the husband was a patient in Doctors Hospital, one of the appellees, the other appellee, Dr. Moretti, removed a cataract from his right eye and afterwards performed a similar operation on his left eye. A urinary infection developed in the left eye...

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