Patrich v. Menorah Medical Center

DIXON, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the trial court’s order and judgment directing a verdict at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence. All defendants filed separate motions for the directed verdict.

The sole issue presented is the sufficiency of the plaintiff’s evidence to constitute a submissible case for the jury of either assault and battery or false imprisonment.

The plaintiff originally filed his petition pro se which, although not included in the record, is asserted to have been a petition sounding in medical malpractice. On September 15, 1980, some two years after the filing of the…