GRIDLEY v. JOHNSON

No. 55563.

476 S.W.2d 475 (1972)

Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. GRIDLEY, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Morris JOHNSON et al., Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

Motions for Rehearing or to Transfer Denied February 22, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elwyn L. Cady, Jr., Independence, for appellants.

William H. Woodson, of Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne, Kansas City, for appellees Johnson, Doane and Botwin.

Clem W. Fairchild, of Linde, Thomson, Van Dyke, Fairchild & Langworthy, Kansas City, for appellee Baptist Memorial Hospital.


Motions for Rehearing or to Transfer to Court En Banc Denied February 22, 1972.

SEILER, Judge.

The plaintiffs, husband and wife, sued three doctors and a hospital for damages caused the wife by the failure of the defendants to make a pregnancy test before doing a dilatation and curettage (referred to by the doctors as a "D and C") and a gall bladder operation on her, when, in fact, she was pregnant and delivered a child seven months later. The court dismissed...

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