Mims v. Boland

How courts have described this case

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

• where patient consented to one cervical vertebrae fusion, damage to laryngeal nerve while performing two fusions is not a battery
• withdrawal of consent not shown by mere “protestations by the [patient] of pain and discomfort and disagreement with [the medical professionals] in the manner they administered the [treatment]”
• “In the relationship of doctor and patient, as in other situations involving a touching of another’s person, consent to the act by the person affected negates the contact as an actionable tort.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).