Candler General Hospital, Inc. v. McNorrill

Carley, Judge.

Appellee-plaintiff filed the instant action to recover for a physical injury he allegedly sustained while a patient in appellant-defendant’s emergency room. With regard to appellee’s injury, the allegations of his complaint were as follows: A “hospital orderly” in the employ of appellant “attempted to remove [appellee] from a stretcher. In so attempting to remove [appellee] from the stretcher, the said orderly could not sustain the weight of [appellee] and ‘dropped’ [appellee], causing injury to [appellee’s] left knee.” Based upon these allegations, appellee advanced two legal…