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186 Minn. 253

243 N.W 67

Johnson v. Arndt

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided May 27, 1932

Supreme Court of Minnesota · decided 1932-05-27

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Decided 1932-05-27

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Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1974

2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions

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Stone, J.

¶1 (dissenting).

¶2 It is a challenging circumstance that each of the two patients, operated on in succession, died suddenly and immediately after her *259 operation. I cannot escape the conclusion that the jury could have concluded, reasonably, that Mrs. Eveslage was operated on first and that the fatal result was known to defendant before he proceeded to operate on Mrs. Johnson. With that as a premise, the conclusion might have béen drawn that it was negligence for the doctor, without even the precaution of investigation into the cause of the first death, to use on the second patient the same anaesthetic which apparently was fatal to the first.

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