Meriwether Memorial Hospital Authority v. Gresham

Carley, Presiding Judge.

When her husband injured himself, appellee-plaintiff accompanied him to appellant-defendant’s hospital facility. In appellant’s emergency room, appellee stood by her husband’s side as he lay on a sheet-draped gurney. When appellee was called away from her husband’s side for the purpose of providing information to appellant, she took several steps and fell. Seeking damages because of the injuries sustained in her fall, appellee filed the instant suit, alleging that she had tripped over one of the wheels of the gurney. Appellant answered and subsequently moved for…