HOSPITAL AUTHORITY OF CITY OF ST. MARYS v. EASON

41452.

113 Ga. App. 401 (1966)

148 S.E.2d 499

HOSPITAL AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF ST. MARYS v. EASON, Administrator.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided March 30, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennet, Gilbert, Gilbert & Whittle, Wallace E. Harrell, Robert W. Harrison, Jr., for plaintiff in error.

Nathan, Hutto & Lee, Jack S. Hutto, contra.


BELL, Presiding Judge.

1. The petition stated a cause of action. The trial judge did not err in overruling the defendant's general demurrer.

The amended petition alleges, inter alia, that plaintiff was admitted as a pay patient in defendant's hospital and had a paralyzed condition and a speech impediment. That defendant's agents left the plaintiff alone while the plaintiff was smoking his pipe in bed, which in the exercise of ordinary care should not...

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