WALSTAD v. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA HOSPITALS

Nos. 20496, 20517.

442 F.2d 634 (1971)

Donna WALSTAD and Lawrence Walstad, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA HOSPITALS and C. Walton Lillehei, Defendants-Appellees. Donna WALSTAD and Lawrence Walstad, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Charles A. MURRAY, M.D., Carlos Ibarra, M.D., and Russell Stasiuk, M.D., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

May 10, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Wm. Rischmiller, Minneapolis, Minn., for plaintiffs-appellants.

O. C. Adamson, II, Minneapolis, Minn., and James H. Geraghy, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Minn., for defendants-appellees.

Before GIBSON, HEANEY and BRIGHT, Circuit Judges.


GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, Donna Walstad and Lawrence Walstad, wife and husband, appeal from a judgment entered on a directed verdict at the close of plaintiffs' case in favor of defendants. Plaintiffs' complaint in this diversity case alleged negligent care and treatment by the physicians concerned and by the University Hospitals.1 In passing upon the directed verdict by Judge Philip Neville, both federal and Minnesota law require...

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