Gregory v. Salem General Hospital

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the circuit court based upon a directed verdict. The action out of which the challenged judgment arose was predicated upon averments that the plaintiff, while a paying patient in the defendant’s hospital, was injured through the negligence of a nurse in the defendant’s employ who, the plaintiff alleges, the defendant knew was incompetent. The complaint charges (1) that the nurse just mentioned placed a hot water bottle in the bed occupied by the plaintiff after arranging the bed covers in such a way that the plaintiff could neither eject…