WHITFIELD v. ROTH

Docket No. S.F. 23020.

10 Cal.3d 874 (1974)

519 P.2d 588

112 Cal. Rptr. 540

MARY KATHERINE WHITFIELD, a Minor, etc., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ARTHUR ROTH et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 12, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Gonick, Schmid & Bernstein, Harry Gonick, Goldstein, Barceloux & Goldstein, P.M. Barceloux, Burton J. Goldstein, Albert E. Levy, Ralph Golub and M. Reed Hunter for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Fadem & Kanner and Gideon Kanner as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Burnhill, Rode, Moffitt & Moore, Burnhill, Morehouse & Burford, McNamara, Lewis & Craddick, Cyril Viadro, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Edwin A. Heafey, Jr., Raoul D. Kennedy and Peter W. Davis for Defendants and Respondents.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, James E. Sabine, Assistant Attorney General, Leonard M. Sperry, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, Harry S. Fenton, Robert F. Carlson and Kenneth G. Nellis as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

SULLIVAN, J.

In this action for damages for medical malpractice, plaintiff appeals from a judgment of nonsuit entered in favor of defendant County of Contra Costa (County) and Glenn S. Skinner, M.D., and from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of all the then remaining defendants. We discuss the appeals separately.

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Appeal from Judgment of Nonsuit

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