Silva v. Providence Hospital of Oakland

Decided December 28, 1939. John Wesley Shenk wrote the opinion for the court.

14 Cal. 2d 762 · Cited 107 times

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• Parks v. Northwestern University · 218 Ill. 381
• Lewis v. Young Men's Christian Assn. · 273 P. 580
• Southern Methodist Hospital & Sanatorium v. Wilson · 46 P.2d 118
• Armstrong v. Wallace · 8 Cal. App. 2d 429
• Duncan v. Nebraska Sanitarium & Benevolent Ass'n · 92 Neb. 162
• Thomas v. German Gen. Benevolent Soc'y · 141 P. 1186
• Stewart v. California Medical Etc. Assn. · 176 P. 46
• Sacramento Box & Lumber Co. v. Rosenberg Bros. & Co. · 292 P. 146
• White v. Schader · 198 P. 19
• Greatrex v. Evangelical Deaconess Hospital · 246 N.W. 137
• Levy v. Superior Court · 239 P. 1100
• Schloendorff v. Society of the New York Hospital · 105 N.E. 92
• City of Dallas v. Smith · 107 S.W.2d 872
• Tucker v. Mobile Infirmary Ass'n · 191 Ala. 572
• Inderbitzen v. Lane Hospital · 12 P.2d 744
• St. Vincent's Hospital v. Stine · 144 N.E. 537
• Murtha v. New York Homeopathic Medical College & Flower Hospital · 126 N.E. 722
• Cowans v. North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc. · 147 S.E. 672
• Robinson v. Rispin · 165 P.2d 979
• Weidner v. Zieglar · 23 P.2d 515
• Southern Methodist Hospital & Sanatorium v. Wilson · 77 P.2d 458
• Carlson v. City of Marshalltown · 236 N.W. 421
• Sessions v. Thos. Dee Memorial Hospital Ass'n. · 51 P.2d 229
• Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Co. v. Thermoid Rubber Co. · 258 P. 663
• Young v. Boy Scouts of America · 9 Cal. App. 2d 760

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