Seigel v. Mt. Sinai Hospital of Greater Miami, Inc.

Appellant-plaintiff seeks reversal of a final judgment entered pursuant to a directed verdict in favor of the appellee-de-fendant in an action wherein the appellee was sued for damages resulting from injuries sustained by appellant when she fell in the bathroom of appellee while she was there as a patient.

The point to be determined by this appeal is whether the trial court erred in directing a verdict for the defendant at the close of plaintiff’s case on the ground that the evidence showed that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law.

The evidence as it appears from…