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Carroll v. Skloff

Citations

  • 415 Pa. 47
  • 202 A.2d 9
  • 1964 Pa. LEXIS 413

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “The cause of action created by the survival statute is 'strictly derivative .... It is grounded upon an existing personal cause of action which the deceased could have but did not institute during his or her lifetime.”
  • direct trauma inflicted by physician, fetus destroyed in utero
  • direct trauma inflicted by physician, fetus destroyed in útero

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Judges: Bell, Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts

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