| | Description: | A special meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on this date in the President's Office at
11 o'clock, with the following present: The Rector, R. Gray Williams, Visitors C. B. Garnett, E. C.
Anderson, D. S. Lancaster, M. H. Bustard, Mrs. O. A. Calcott, Mrs. Phoebe E. Willis, Mrs. Bertha P. Wailes,
President Newcomb and President Combs. In April, last, suit was instituted in the Circuit Court of Albemarle County by one Sell Shiflett
of Greene County, Virginia, against Dr. C. S. Lentz, Administrator of University Hospital, Dr. James R. Cash,
head of the Department of Pathology of said Hospital, and Dr. Glenn Hendrickson, Dr. Robert Boyd, and Dr. R. E.
Balsley, in which the plaintiff claims damages in the sum of $5,000.00 alleging that on the 27th of January,
1945, in the University Hospital, an autopsy was performed upon the dead body of Addie Shiflett, deceased wife
of said Sell Shiflett, without the consent of said Sell Shiflett and without obtaining proper authority from the
Commonwealth's Attorney or Judge of the Circuit Court of Greene County, and that furthermore certain vital
organs were removed from said body without the consent of said plaintiff. |
