Ashcraft v. King

How courts have described this case

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• surgeon committed battery when patient’s consent to operation was conditioned on use of family-donated blood only, and surgeon intentionally violated condition
• consent to surgery conditioned on use of family-donated blood, but doctor used blood from general supply
• battery action where plaintiff agreed to surgery on condition that blood donated would be from her family, but during surgery, the hospital used its general blood supply and plaintiff acquired HIV allegedly from transfused blood
• defining civil battery under California law
• defining civil battery under California law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).