Owens v. White Memorial Hospital

This action is one in which the plaintiff sought damages for personal injuries sustained when a side rail of one of defendant’s hospital beds dropped onto her right foot after she had pressed the release pedal with that foot to lower the side rail of the bed.

The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars and defendant, The College of Medical Evangelist, a corporation, has appealed.

The facts most favorable to the plaintiff are as follows: The plaintiffs’ daughter, aged about 2 years and 9 months, had been admitted to the hospital as a…