HILL v. LEIGH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INCORPORATED


132 S.E.2d 411 (1963)

204 Va. 501

Alice HILL v. LEIGH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INCORPORATED et al.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

September 11, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis B. Fine, Henry M. Schwan, Norfolk (Fine, Fine, Legum & Schwan, Norfolk, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

Jack E. Greer, William T. Prince, Norfolk (Williams, Cocke, Worrell & Kelly, Norfolk, on brief), for defendants in error.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, SNEAD, I'ANSON and CARRICO, JJ.


CARRICO, Justice.

Alice Hill, while a patient in the Leigh Memorial Hospital in Norfolk, fell and fractured her right arm. She filed a motion for judgment against the hospital corporation and three of the hospital's nurses, Dorothy Harmon, Margaret Parke and Sarah Brown, seeking to recover damages for her injury.

In her motion for judgment, the plaintiff alleged that the nurses were negligent while she was a patient in the hospital and that the hospital was...

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