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MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC. v. OAKES

108 S.E.2d 388 (1959)

200 Va. 878

MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC., etc., v. Dora H. OAKES, Adm'x, etc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

May 4, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin B. Meade, Danville (Meade, Talbott & Tate, Danville, on the brief), for plaintiff in error.

W. Carrington Thompson, Chatham, Theodore P. Huggins, Danville (George E. Bendall, Danville, on the brief), for defendant in error.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and BUCHANAN, MILLER, WHITTLE, SNEAD and I'ANSON, JJ.

SNEAD, Justice.

Harmon Washington Oakes, Sr., a patient in The Memorial Hospital, Incorporated, of Danville, was being administered oxygen while he was incased in an oxygen tent when he and the tent caught fire. Oakes received third degree burns and he died the next day. Dora H. Oakes, Administratrix, instituted action for damages under the death by wrongful act statute (§ 8-633 et seq. Code 1950) against the hospital on November 5, 1957. A jury verdict of $12...

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