Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
McDonough v. Bershad
400 U.S. 992
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1971-01-11
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- dental malpractice; doctrine of res ipsa loquitur of inferred negligence can be applied to expert’s testimony that particular result would not “ordinarily” happen
- "[t]he commercial substance of the transaction rather than its form, must be considered, and the courts should guard against sham transactions ..."
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.