McDONALD v. SACRAMENTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION BLOOD BK

Docket No. 15546.

62 Cal.App.3d 866 (1976)

133 Cal. Rptr. 444

CHARLES I. McDONALD, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. SACRAMENTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION BLOOD BANK et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

October 18, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Leverenz & Ward and Carl B. Leverenz for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt & Gray, Joe S. Gray, Scott L. Gassaway, Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers & Huber, David E. Willett, James N. Penrod, Charles F. Bond II, Tweedy, Dawson, Duncan, Hunt & Ball, Tweedy, Duncan, Hunt & Ball and Nina Loree Hunt for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

PARAS, J.

A 45-year-old woman underwent a routine hysterectomy at Feather River Hospital in Chico on September 28, 1970. The operation itself was successful, but she died three months later of serum hepatitis contracted from a blood transfusion administered during the surgical procedure. Her husband filed this wrongful death action against the doctors, the hospital, and the supplier of the blood, a nonprofit community blood...

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