GRIFFIN v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 39099.

351 F.Supp. 10 (1972)

Richard J. GRIFFIN and Mary Jane Griffin, His Wife v. UNITED STATES of America.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

November 7, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avram G. Adler, and Stanley P. Kops, Freedman, Borowsky & Lorry, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

John Charles Kruse, and Robert D. Batson, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

NEWCOMER, District Judge.

On October 27, 1963, plaintiff, Mary Jane Griffin, participated in a mass campaign to eradicate the dreaded disease of poliomyelitis sponsored by the Montgomery County Medical Society, by swallowing a dose of Sabin live virus oral polio vaccine. Just over a month later, Mary Jane Griffin lay near death in a coma at Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia. She emerged from that coma a permanent quadriplegic. In this suit...

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