Mudd v. Dorr

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the defendant doctor was captain of the ship who had exclusive control over a sponge left inside a patient
• concluding that the defendant doctor was captain of the ship who had exclusive control over a sponge left inside a patient
• res ipsa loquitur applies where surgeon left cottonoid sponge inside patient
• claim against surgeon who left a cottonoid sponge inside patient
• sponge not removed from patient in connection with surgery
• eottonoid sponges used during sur gery left in spine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).