MARY WASHINGTON HOSP., INC. v. GIBSON

Record No. 811897.

319 S.E.2d 741 (1984)

MARY WASHINGTON HOSPITAL, INC. v. Curtis Franklin GIBSON.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Leigh Thompson, Richmond (Thompson, Savage & Smithers, Richmond, on briefs), for appellant.

W.W. Whitlock, Mineral, for appellee.

Present All the Justices.


COMPTON, Justice.

In this slip-and-fall case, we limited the appeal to consideration of claims that the trial court erroneously admitted certain evidence and incorrectly instructed the jury.

On January 13, 1979, about 10:00 a.m., appellee Curtis Franklin Gibson, age 44, was injured when he fell in Fredericksburg on an outdoor sidewalk on the grounds of appellant Mary Washington Hospital, Inc. In January of 1980, Gibson filed this damage suit against the hospital...

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