Sasser v. Humana of Florida, Inc.

LARRY G. SMITH, Judge.

The jury returned a verdict finding no negligence on the part of the appellee hospital or its nurse-employee which was the cause of injury to appellant, Mrs. Sasser. The trial judge denied appellants’ motion for new trial, and we are asked to review and to reverse that ruling. Appellate counsel have forthrightly limited this appeal, so far as their negligence claims are concerned, to the question of whether the trial court’s failure to set aside the jury’s verdict was an abuse of discretion. Based upon our examination of the briefs, argument of counsel, and the record in…