DAUGHERTY v. NORTH KANSAS CITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

No. KCD 29003.

570 S.W.2d 795 (1978)

Jackie K. DAUGHERTY, Respondent, v. NORTH KANSAS CITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Kansas City District.

August 28, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean F. Arnold and B. W. Jacob, Kansas City, for appellant.

David R. Odegard and Robert M. Sommers, Kansas City, for respondent; James, Odegard & Millert, Kansas City, of counsel.

Before WELBORN, Special Judge, Presiding, Higgins, Special Judge, and PRITCHARD, J.


PRITCHARD, Judge.

Respondent recovered judgment, upon a verdict of a jury, for $30,000, upon her claim of negligence, as submitted in Instruction No. 4, that appellant allowed an ice collar to remain upon respondent too long [thereby causing Bell's Palsy, which, according to the record, resulted from a swelling of the cranial nerve in the bony passageway to the face].

Appellant's contentions are, first, that the court erred in failing to direct a verdict in...

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