Court Opinion

ID: 9472114
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 03:49:42.604443+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:45.054229
License: Public Domain

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
Dr. Miltenberger is now held liable in damages for repairing a hiatal hernia of Myetta Lipscomb, which he discovered in operating upon her for removal of the gall bladder. The discovery convinced him on sight that without repair at once, the hernia was an immediately impending threat to her life. With the open abdominal incission revealing the gall bladder as well as the hernia, with his patient unconscious and with no assistance at hand, he faced an emergency demanding action forthwith to *339save the plaintiff’s life and he so acted. dissent from the conclusion of this Court's majority that his informed and responsive determination subjected him to tort or contract liability at law to the one whose life he saved. I