VILORD v. JENKINS

Nos. 69-8, 69-129.

226 So.2d 245 (1969)

Elizabeth Ann VILORD and Her Husband, Charles Vilord, Appellants, v. William JENKINS, M.D., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

Rehearing Denied September 23, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Orseck, of Podhurst & Orseck, and Spence, Payne & Masington, Miami, for appellants.

John W. Hamilton, of Ramseur, Bradham, Lyle, Skipper & Cramer, St. Petersburg, for appellee.


McNULTY, Judge.

This is a malpractice action brought by plaintiff-appellants against the appellee-doctor. Summary judgment was entered in favor of the doctor and plaintiffs appeal.

In December, 1961, while in a physicianpatient relationship, the appellee-doctor advised the appellant-wife to consent to a female sterilization procedure (known as a bilateral partial salpingectomy). It is alleged that he expressly "...

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