SIMMONS v. YURCHAK

No. 88-P-950.

28 Mass. App. Ct. 371 (1990)

551 N.E.2d 539

STANLEY G. SIMMONS vs. PETER M. YURCHAK.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 15, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack J. Mikels (Rochelle S. Nelson with him) for the plaintiff.

Craig M. Brown (Robert P. Ingram with him) for the defendant.

Present: WARNER, C.J., ARMSTRONG, & KASS, JJ.


KASS, J.

On special questions, a jury returned a verdict that the defendant Yurchak, a physician, had not been negligent in treating the plaintiff Stanley G. Simmons. We discuss some evidentiary issues which the plaintiff has raised and then comment in comparatively abbreviated fashion on the residual appellate points.

On November 17, 1978, Simmons, then age sixty-nine, suffered a stroke and was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital. As a consequence...

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