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· 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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