CHRISTOPHER v. ST. VINCENT'S HOSP. & MED. CTR.


121 A.D.2d 303 (1986)

Lynn Christopher et al., Appellants, v. St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, Respondent, and Albert Burchell et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 24, 1986


In a medical malpractice action for damages sustained as a result of a cardiac arrest in the course of an operation, the plaintiffs and two of the doctor defendants, Drs. Burchell and Keyloun, appeal from an order of the Supreme Court granting the motion of the defendant St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center (St. Vincent's) for summary judgment dismissing the complaint against it.

The events with which we are concerned started on June 29, 1977, when an appendectomy...

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