OWENS v. WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Docket No. 21018.

138 Cal.App.2d 634 (1956)

292 P.2d 288

BETTE J. OWENS, Respondent, v. WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (a Corporation) et al., Defendants; THE COLLEGE OF MEDICAL EVANGELIST (a Corporation), Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

January 24, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dryden, Harrington, Horgan & Swartz for Appellant.

Joseph A. Kean for Respondent.


FOURT, J.

This action is one in which the plaintiff sought damages for personal injuries sustained when a side rail of one of defendant's hospital beds dropped onto her right foot after she had pressed the release pedal with that foot to lower the side rail of the bed.

The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars and defendant, The College of Medical Evangelist, a corporation, has appealed.

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