Mapp v. Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Inc.

This is an appeal by Calvin R. Mapp, plaintiff below, from a final judgment entered in favor of the defendant, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Inc., upon the granting of its motion for directed verdict at the close of plaintiff’s case.

Plaintiff’s complaint charged that the defendant was guilty of negligence in permitting the hospital bed in which the plaintiff was lying to fall and injure him when it was being pulled away from the wall by a nurse of the defendant.

There was no evidence adduced at the trial as to the cause of the collapse of the leg of the bed. However, plaintiff contends that he…