SABELLA v. BATON ROUGE GENERAL HOSPITAL

No. 14441.

408 So.2d 382 (1981)

Tina M. SABELLA v. BATON ROUGE GENERAL HOSPITAL.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

December 22, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Cooper, Jr., Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant, Tina M. Sabella.

George K. Anding, Jr., Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee, Baton Rouge General Hospital.

Before ELLIS, LOTTINGER and PONDER, JJ.


PONDER, Judge.

Plaintiff appealed from an adverse jury verdict in a tort suit for injuries sustained in a fall at a hospital.

The issue is the correctness of the trial judge's refusal to submit a jury instruction concerning res ipsa loquitur.

We reverse and render.

Due to plaintiff's physical incapacities, overweight and bilateral amputation above the knees, she was to receive abdominal x-rays while lying on her side on a stretcher. The x-ray...

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