HARDER v. F.C. CLINTON, INC.

No. 86426.

948 P.2d 298 (1997)

1997 OK 137

Minnie HARDER, as Administrator of the Estate of Ethel Kayser, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. F.C. CLINTON, INC. d/b/a Heritage Care Center, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

November 4, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rick Bisher, Boettcher, Ryan & Martin, Oklahoma City, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

James M. Kaufman, Michael S. McMillin, Fenton, Fenton, Smith, Reneau & Moon, Oklahoma City, for Defendant-Appellee.


OPALA, Justice.

The dispositive question before this court is whether the trial court erred by directing a verdict for the defendant at the close of the plaintiff's evidence that followed a res ipsa loquitur pattern of proof. We answer in the affirmative.

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THE ANATOMY OF LITIGATION

Ethel Kayser [Kayser] was admitted on July 14, 1992 to the Heritage Care Center [Heritage, Center, or nursing...

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