NORTHEAST ALA. REG. MED. CTR. v. OWENS

89-1590, 89-1635.

584 So.2d 1360 (1991)

NORTHEAST ALABAMA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER v. Betty OWENS. James OWENS v. NORTHEAST ALABAMA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 28, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Dillon of Merrill, Porch, Dillon & Fite, Anniston, for appellant, cross-appellee Northeast Ala. Regional Medical Center.

Shay Samples and Ronald R. Crook of Hogan, Smith, Alspaugh, Samples & Pratt, Birmingham, for appellee Betty Owens and appellant James Owens.


ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING

MADDOX, Justice.

This Court's opinion of May 17, 1991, is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.

These are consolidated appeals. A hospital appeals from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict awarding a plaintiff wife $350,000 in compensatory damages for negligence in treating her while she was a patient in the hospital. The hospital makes several claims of error: 1) that the trial judge should have reduced...

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