PICKER X-RAY CORPORATION v. FRERKER

No. 19010.

405 F.2d 916 (1969)

PICKER X-RAY CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Helena FRERKER and Helena Frerker, Executrix of Last Will of Leo B. Frerker, Deceased, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

January 30, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morton K. Lange, of Robertson, DeVoto & Wieland, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant; L. A. Robertson, on the brief.

Rexford H. Caruthers, St. Louis, Mo., for appellees.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Chief Judge, BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge, and VAN PELT, District Judge.


VAN PELT, District Judge.

This is an action for damages, which was originally filed in the state courts of St. Louis and was thereafter removed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Diversity jurisdiction exists.

The action arises from a medical procedure on Helena Frerker, one of the plaintiffs, in which a Kifa guide wire was inserted into her body. When the guide wire was removed it was found that the tip had broken off...

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