PURCELL v. MARY WASHINGTON HOSP. ASS'N, INC.

Record No. 760225.

232 S.E.2d 902 (1977)

Ella Mae PURCELL, Individually, et al. v. MARY WASHINGTON HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, INCORPORATED.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 4, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles O. Cake, Alexandria (Howard, Stevens, Lynch, Cake & Howard, P.C. Alexandria, on brief), for plaintiffs in error.

R. Carter Scott, III, Richmond (Richard K. Bennett, Browder, Russell, Little, Morris & Butcher, Richmond, on brief), for defendant in error.

Before I'ANSON, C. J., and CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN, POFF and COMPTON, JJ.


HARMAN, Justice.

This is a consolidated appeal in three separate actions brought by Ella Mae Purcell, individually and as mother and next friend of Santo Devon Purcell and Lashavon L. Purcell, infants (plaintiffs), against Mary Washington Hospital Association, Incorporated (the hospital), and two of its staff physicians for negligence which is alleged to have occurred in April, 1971. The trial court, after a consolidated hearing ore tenus on the hospital's...

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