Ask $150,000 From Doctor, Charging Operation Fraud

Citation: "Ask $150,000 From Doctor, Charging Operation Fraud," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 11 May 1936, p. 2; image, Newspapers.com (clipping by mattjameswade, 5 July 2019).

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Ask $150,000 From Doctor, Charging Operation Fraud
Dr. H. Albert Wade, who conducts a sanitarium on Greene Ave., is defendant in a suit for $150,000 brought in Supreme Court by Mrs. Edna Siegel and her husband, Philip, who allege that he misrepresented facts about an operation that he had performed on Mrs. Siegel, with the result she resumed exercises and diets in the belief that she was minus her gall bladder. Ailments from which she suffered instead of being cured were aggravated, the complaint alleges, and it was not until some time afterward Mrs. Siegel discovered that the ailing organ was still in her interior.
Mrs. Siegel wants $100,000 damages for her own injuries and her husband seeks $50,000 for loss of services and additional medical expenses.
The case came before Justice Alonzo G. McLaughlin on Dr. Wade's application to dismiss the suit on the ground it was outlawed by the statute of limitations. The court denied his plea, pointing out that the complaint alleged fraud on the part of Dr. Wade rather than malpractice and gave Dr. Wade 20 days to file an answer.