Casey v. Koos

How courts have described this case

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

• general rale is that tort-feasor is responsible for negligence of attending physician in treating injured party
• “Ordinarily negligence, contributory negligence, and proximate cause are jury questions. Only in exceptional cases are they decided as matters of law.”
• district court should decide in the first instance whether to apply offensive issue preclusion following completion of appeal process for prior proceeding
• district court should decide in the first instance whether to apply offensive issue preclusion following completion of appeal process for prior proceeding
• court found meritless defendant’s request to introduce malpractice by treating physician, court reiterated rule that a “tort-feasor is responsible for the negligence of an attending physician in treating the injured party”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).