Hill v. Lutheran Hospital

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Rock Island County granting summary judgment in favor of defendant Thomas J. Durkin, M. D. The action was instituted by plaintiff, John Wesley Hill, for damages occasioned by the alleged negligence of defendants, Thomas J. Durkin, M. D. and Lutheran Hospital, in the treatment of plaintiffs wife, Lena Mae Hill, who died in the course of childbirth.

Plaintiff, on November 28,1975, filed the complaint in this cause which alleged that defendants Durkin and Lutheran Hospital were negligent during the treatment of his wife, while she was giving…