JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL v. GENDA

[No. 24, September Term, 1969.]

255 Md. 616 (1969)

258 A.2d 595

JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL v. GENDA ET UX.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 13, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward B. Coe, Jr. and John F. King, with whom were Thomas G. Young, III and Anderson, Coe & King on the brief, for appellant.

William H. Engelman, with whom were Herbert J. Belgrad and Berenholtz, Kaplan & Heyman on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and MARBURY, McWILLIAMS, FINAN and SMITH, JJ.


FINAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case is before us on appeal from a jury verdict of $50,000 awarded to plaintiffs-appellees for personal injury to their infant son resulting from a fragment of a needle left in his body at the time of a surgical operation upon his heart. The case was tried in the Superior Court of Baltimore City. Before the case was submitted to the jury, defendant Johns Hopkins Hospital moved for a directed verdict. The denial of...

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