ASHCRAFT v. MOBILE INFIRMARY MED. CENTER

88-1656.

570 So.2d 593 (1990)

Avis ASHCRAFT and Melvin Ashcraft v. MOBILE INFIRMARY MEDICAL CENTER.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied November 9, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Taylor of Jackson & Taylor, Mobile, for appellants.

W. Michael Atchison and Anna Lee Giattina of Starnes & Atchison, Birmingham, for appellee.


ALMON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment based on a directed verdict in favor of the defendant, the Mobile Infirmary Medical Center ("Infirmary"), in a negligence case arising from a slip and fall. The question presented is whether there was sufficient evidence of negligence on the part of the Infirmary or its employees to warrant submission of that issue to the jury.

Avis Ashcraft was a 71-year-old patient in the Infirmary's psychiatric ward. In...

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