Doty v. Lutheran Hospital Ass'n

Plaintiff sustained a fracture of the femur, or thigh Ibone, of his left leg about midway between the knee and the hip, and other minor injuries to his head and face, caused by the overturning of an automobile, owing to a defect in a highway, at a bridge approach. When the car turned over, plaintiff was thrown to the bottom of a ditch which was about 22 feet deep. He was immediately taken to the defendant Lutheran Hospital Association at Beatrice for treatment. Plaintiff alleges that the defendant hospital and the defendants Dr. Hepperlen and Dr. Brown “were and are now jointly engaged in the…