PITTMAN v. METHODIST HOSPITAL

No. 43493.

252 Miss. 849 (1965)

173 So.2d 923

PITTMAN v. METHODIST HOSPITAL OF MISSISSIPPI ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 19, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl E. Berry, Jr., Hattiesburg; W.S. Murphy, Lucedale, for appellant.

M.M. Roberts, Hattiesburg, for appellee.


LEE, C.J.

The pleadings and evidence in this case raised an issue as to whether the appellee hospital, through one of its nurses, was guilty of negligence proximately causing or contributing to a broken collarbone which Mrs. Berta Pittman, the appellant, sustained while a patient in the hospital.

Mrs. Pittman testified that, while she was in a weekened condition, Mrs. Louise Simmons, the nurse, was attending her on a bedpan and negligently permitted her to...

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