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COLBY v. SCHWARTZ

Docket No. 51318.

78 Cal.App.3d 885 (1978)

144 Cal. Rptr. 624

MILDRED I. COLBY et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. EDWARD J. SCHWARTZ et al., Defendants and Respondents; FIDELITY AND CASUALTY COMPANY OF NEW YORK, Intervener and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Five.

March 20, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Bell & Shapiro and Sydney Halem for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Kirtland & Packard, Wallace C. Reed and Robert E. Moore, Jr., for Defendants and Respondents.

Shelley M. Mercer, Lewis S. Fleishman and John M. Fredenburg as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents. Kendig, Stockwell & Gleason and William R. Jackson for Intervener and Respondent.

OPINION

STEPHENS, Acting P.J.

In their complaint, plaintiffs, the widow and surviving adult children of decedent Walter Colby, named Doctors Avol, Schwartz, Uriu, Engel, and the Hawthorne Community Hospital as defendants. Plaintiffs alleged that each negligently diagnosed, cared for, and treated plaintiffs' decedent. There is also an allegation that defendants abandoned the decedent after initiating medical care. Plaintiffs claimed...

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