Robert E. Denton, Inc. v. Spelman Memorial Hospital

ULRICH, Judge.

Appellants Robert E. Denton, Inc., and John P. Biscanin, Administrator of the Estate of Philip H. Wolfram, appeal from the court’s order granting defendants’ motion for a directed verdict at the close of plaintiffs’ case. The judgment is affirmed.

Robert E. Denton and Philip H. Wolfram were medical doctors who practiced medicine at Spelman Memorial Hospital, (hospital) Smithville, Missouri. Dr. Wolfram had practiced medicine in Smithville for ten years prior to his death in an automobile collision on October 30, 1985. Robert E. Denton practiced medicine in Smithville for in…