Richard v. Adair Hospital Foundation Corp.

REYNOLDS, Judge.

The father, as administrator of his deceased infant’s estate, appeals from Adair Circuit Court’s summary judgment which dismissed action for wrongful death.

Appellant alleged that on March 14, 1973 the appellee, Adair Hospital Foundation Corporation, negligently denied on two occasions emergency room admission to his infant child who thereafter died on March 15, 1973. The issue raised upon this appeal is the correctness of the summary judgment.

The limited proof in the record consists of the parents’ depositions and that, of Dr. W. H. Bryant. Briefly, the parents testified that…