Baptist Memorial Hospital v. McTighe

FRASER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of plaintiff by the District Court of Bexar County, Texas. The case was tried to a jury, and the facts are briefly as follows:

Plaintiff, appellee, went to defendant hospital at the suggestion of her physician for the purpose of having an X-ray picture made. She paid the receptionist the sum of five dollars in advance, and after being told where the ladies’ rest-room was, she proceeded down the hall according to directions. When she reached the rest-room, she opened the door, and while entering fell and broke her leg and hip.…