White v. Moody

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas after a jury determination that appellees Eleanor Roberts and Mary Nolze were negligent in their nursing care of the deceased, Noble Jackson, and that Jackson was contributorily negligent in causing her own death.

Appellant, Arnold White, as administrator of Noble Jackson’s estate, brought this action as a result of Jackson’s death. On May 15, 1979, Jackson, a twenty-one-year-old female, was incarcerated at the Women’s Correctional Facility (“WCI”) located in Columbus, Ohio, and operated by the city of Columbus.…