Clark v. St. Thomas Hospital

OPINION

TODD, Presiding Judge (Middle Section).

Plaintiff has appealed from a jury verdict and judgment dismissing his suit for injuries sustained in a fall in defendant’s hospital. The sole issue presented on appeal is the admission in evidence of a video tape of a reenactment of the occasion of his injury.

The background facts are undisputed.

Plaintiff entered the defendant hospital as a patient on October 7, 1977, and was discharged on November 12, 1977. On October 25, 1977, plaintiff’s left kidney and spleen were surgically removed. On November 12, 1977, plaintiff was taken to the x-ray room…