Carter v. Harlan Hospital

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Fulton

Affirming.

Appellant, Nannie Carter, filed this malpractice action against Harlan. Hospital, Incorporated, and Dr. W. P. Cawood, alleging that they performed an abdominal operation on her and carelessly left a pair of forceps in her abdominal cavity; that one prong of these forceps became detached from the other and worked its way through the intestines and was discharged through the rectum; that the other prong of the forceps remained in the abdominal cavity, requiring another operation for the removal thereof, and that as a result of this neglig’ence on…