BAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSP. v. GOSA

1950156, 1950157.

686 So.2d 1147 (1996)

BAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL v. Brenda GOSA. BAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL v. Iris WRIGHT.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied December 13, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis Wright and Curtis Wright II of Dortch, Wright & Wright, Gadsden, and Oakley Melton, Jr. of Melton, Espy, Williams & Hayes, Montgomery, for Appellant.

Donald R. Rhea of Rhea, Boyd & Rhea, Gadsden, for Appellees.


HOOPER, Chief Justice.

Iris Wright sued Baptist Memorial Hospital ("BMH"), alleging that a man had shot her in BMH's parking lot as she left work one evening. She sought damages on the theory that BMH was liable for the harm caused by the criminal act of that third party. Wright's friend, Brenda Gosa, also sued BMH on the same theory, seeking damages for wanton or negligent infliction of emotional distress; Gosa alleged...

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