PRESCOTT v. LOVETT

No. 69-42.

239 So.2d 606 (1970)

Betty PRESCOTT, Appellant, v. W. Thomas LOVETT, Thomas Hegert and Orange Memorial Hospital Association, Inc., a Florida Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 25, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Trulock, Jr., and James M. Russ, Orlando, for appellant.

Russell Troutman, Winter Park, for appellees Lovett and Hegert.

Robert O. Stripling, Jr., of Maguire, Voorhis & Wells, Orlando, for appellee Orange Memorial Hospital.


PER CURIAM.

This is an unauthorized autopsy case which was brought by the decedent's mother against a pathologist, a hospital and a Justice of the Peace. The complaint was dismissed for failure to state a cause of action upon the defendants' motions. The mother appeals. We reverse.

We have minutely examined the allegations of the complaint, mindful that its well pleaded allegations are to be taken as true. Based upon this restricted examination, we feel that...

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