GRESHAM v. COURSON

Nos. G-54, G-55.

177 So.2d 33 (1965)

Marvin GRESHAM, W.E. Rion, J.N. Anderson, S.K. Lindsey, and Harry Edwards, as and comprising the Board of Trustees for the Alachua General Hospital, and Alachua County, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, Appellants, v. Clifford C. COURSON, as Administrator of the Estate of Dale Warren Courson, deceased, Appellee. Marvin GRESHAM, W.E. Rion, J.N. Anderson, S.K. Lindsey, and Harry Edwards, as and comprising the Board of Trustees for the Alachua General Hospital, and Alachua County, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, Appellants, v. Clifford C. COURSON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

Rehearing Denied August 6, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gray, Chandler, O'Neal, Carlisle & Avera, Gainesville, for appellants.

Nichols, Gaither, Beckham, Colson & Spence, Miami, for appellee.


STURGIS, Chief Judge.

On March 1, 1963, Dale Warren Courson, the 11-month-old child of appellee Clifford C. Courson, plaintiff below, died in consequence of having been strangled on a cord around his neck from which was suspended a pacifier. The strangulation occurred in a day nursery maintained at the Alachua General Hospital in Gainesville, Florida, for the convenience of its employees, who paid a fee for the service. Two negligence actions were filed, consolidated...

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