Monday, November 01, 2004

A leg from any other person...

From Gammon v. Osteopathic Hospital of Maine, 534 A.2d 1282 (ME 1987):

Plaintiff's father, Linwood, died in defendant hospital. Plaintiff asked defendant funeral home to make the arrangements. He alleged that the defendants negligently conducted thier operations so that he received a bag that was supposedly personal effects, but which in fact contained "a bloodied leg, severed below the knee, and bluish in color." He yelled "Oh my God, they have taken my father's leg off." He ran into the kitchen where an aunt testified that he 'was as white as a ghost." In fact the leg was a pathology specifmen removed from another person.

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