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208 F.2d 848

Docket No. 11456.

Stark v. White

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued Dec. 14, 1953.

Decided Jan. 7, 1954.

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1954-01-07

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1959

5 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Relies on Rodgers v. Lawson

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1954-01-07

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¶1Mr. Arthur L. Willcher, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Max Bergman, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

¶2Mr. John R. Daily, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. H. Mason Welch and J. Harry Welch, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

¶3Before FAHY, WASHINGTON and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5Plaintiffs, husband and wife, sued in the District Court complaining that defendant, a surgeon, negligently and carelessly diagnosed the wife’s condition, and thereafter performed an operation upon the plaintiff wife in a negligent and careless manner. At the close of the plaintiffs’ case, the trial judge directed a verdict for the defendant on the ground that there was no evidence to show that defendant had failed to exercise that degree of care and skill ordinarily exercised by a surgeon in this locality.

¶6Upon review of the claims of the parties and after careful consideration, we are impelled to agreement with the action taken in the District Court. See Rodgers v. Lawson, 1948, 83 U.S.App.D. C. 281, 170 F.2d 157, and cases there cited. The judgment is

¶7Affirmed.

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