REEDY v. MID-STATE BAPTIST HOSPITAL


359 S.W.2d 822 (1962)

Elizabeth REEDY v. MID-STATE BAPTIST HOSPITAL.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing Denied June 5, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Casey, Nashville, for petitioner.

Joseph G. Cummings, Davis, Boult, Hunt & Cummings, Nashville, for defendant.


FELTS, Justice.

Petitioner sued defendant for compensation for total and permanent disability she alleged had resulted from a back injury she had suffered August 8, 1959, while she was employed by defendant as a "scrub nurse." She claimed that as she was standing on a short foot stool, helping a surgeon lift a patient from an operating table to a stretcher, the "stool turned and she was thrown and her back severely twisted," causing the disability sued for.

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