LIBEL AND SLANDER - CHARGING PHYSICIAN WITH LACK OF SKILL IN PARTICULAR CASE

Authors

Michigan Law Review, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

Plaintiff, a practicing physician, sued to recover damages for an alleged libel committed when defendant falsely published in its newspaper an article stating that plaintiff examined a prisoner in the city jail, diagnosed his condition as "alcoholic paralysis," and ordered his removal to a city hospital, and that a post mortem disclosed that the prisoner's neck was fractured. Held, that to charge a physician with having made a wrong diagnosis in a particular case is not actionable per se, and since there is no allegation of special damage, there can be no recovery. Blende v. Hearst Publications, Inc., 200 Wash. 426, 93 P. (2d) 733 (1939).

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, LIBEL AND SLANDER - CHARGING PHYSICIAN WITH LACK OF SKILL IN PARTICULAR CASE, 38 Mich. L. Rev. 912 (1940).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol38/iss6/18