· 11/13/1956
Frost v. Des Moines Still College of Osteopathy & Surgery
Citations
- 79 N.W.2d 306
- 248 Iowa 294
- 1956 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 403
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “The injury was of a kind which ordinarily does not occur in the absence of someone’s negligence.”
- unusual injury to a healthy part of the body not within the area of surgery
- application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is not prevented because the injury may have been caused by the separate acts of any of the defendants
- application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur is not prevented because the injury may have been caused by the separate acts of any of the defendants
- burn on abdomen from back surgery
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Judges: Larson
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