CHANDLER v. HOSPITAL AUTHORITY OF HUNTSVILLE

84-1297.

500 So.2d 1012 (1986)

Tammy R. CHANDLER, etc. v. HOSPITAL AUTHORITY OF the CITY OF HUNTSVILLE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied December 19, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Ford and Daniel F. Aldridge of Brinkley & Ford, Huntsville, for appellants.

Donna S. Pate and Stanley Rodgers of Ford, Caldwell, Ford & Payne, Huntsville, for appellee.

Colleen Samples and Lloyd W. Gathings of Emond & Vines, Birmingham, for amicus curiae Alabama Trial Lawyers Assoc.


JONES, Justice.

Plaintiff Tammy R. Chandler appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of Defendant Hospital Authority of the City of Huntsville (operator of Huntsville Hospital).

Two issues are presented on appeal: 1) Whether this Court should overrule Geohagan v. General Motors Corp., 291 Ala. 167, 279 So.2d 436 (1973), and allow a wrongful death action ex contractu; and 2) whether the provision granting...

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