SEVERNS v. WILMINGTON MEDICAL CENTER, INC.


421 A.2d 1334 (1980)

William H. SEVERNS, Plaintiff, v. The WILMINGTON MEDICAL CENTER, INCORPORATED, a Corporation of the State of Delaware; Richard S. Gebelein, as Attorney General for the State of Delaware; Martin Gibbs, M. D., and the Board of Medical Practice of the State of Delaware, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided September 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Herlihy, III (argued), of Herlihy & Herlihy, Wilmington, for plaintiff.

William J. Wade (argued), of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for defendant The Wilmington Medical Center, Inc.

Edward F. Kafader, Deputy Atty. Gen. (argued), Wilmington, for defendants Richard S. Gebelein, Atty. Gen. for the State of Delaware, and The Board of Medical Practice of the State of Delaware.

Martin Gibbs, M.D., pro se.

G. Thomas Sandbach (argued), Wilmington, for Mary Reeser Severns.

Before DUFFY, McNEILLY, QUILLEN and HORSEY, JJ., constituting the Court en banc.


DUFFY, Justice:

In this Certification proceeding the Court is asked to determine that the Court of Chancery has the power to order that certain life-sustaining supports for Mary Reeser Severns be removed. Implicitly, the complaint assumes that those supports sustain her life. The inevitable corollary is that, without them, Mrs. Severns will die. Thus the issue presented, no matter how it may be described, concerns actions...

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