Legal Opinion
Severns v. Wilmington Medical Center, Inc.
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Decided December 31, 1980PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARVEL, Chancellor:
On December 6, 1979, Mary Reeser Se-verns, who was at the time fifty-five years of age, while driving alone in a motor vehicle, was seriously injured when said vehicle veered from the Brackenville Road on which it was being driven, and plunged into a wooded area by the side of the road. Some time thereafter Mrs. Severns was found in a coma and was taken by ambulance to the Delaware Division of the Wilmington Medical Center where she thereafter resided for most of the following year. She has recently been moved to a nursing home, namely, the Episcopal Church Home situate on…
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