HAILE v. SUTHERLAND

No. C9-99-415.

598 N.W.2d 424 (1999)

Mihret HAILE[], Appellant, v. David E.R. SUTHERLAND, M.D., Respondent, University of Minnesota, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

August 17, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry E. Reed, Hassan Reed, Ltd., Minneapolis, for appellant.

Jean B. Rudolph Hoppe, Geraghty, O'Loughlin Kenney, P.A., St. Paul, for respondent Sutherland.

Charles E. Lundberg, Rebecca Egge Moos, Bassford, Lockhart, Truesdell Briggs, P.A., Minneapolis, for respondents University of Minnesota, et al.

Considered and decided by CRIPPEN, Presiding Judge, SHORT, Judge, and HARTEN, Judge.


OPINION

SHORT, Judge.

After discovering benign tissue from her left breast had been removed during surgery, Mihret Haile sued David Sutherland, M.D., the University of Minnesota, and S. Fitzsimmons, R.N. (collectively "respondents") for medical negligence and battery. Haile appeals from the trial court's summary dismissal of both claims.

FACTS

On September 26, 1995, Haile underwent surgery at...

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