Birmingham Baptist Hospital v. Crews

FOSTER, Justice.

No question is raised on this appeal in respect to the pleading. The complaint is very general, and gives no idea of the specific wrong sought to be charged. Plaintiff sued as the father of a minor child for its wrongful death under authority of section 5695, Code.

The brief of counsel is more specific than the complaint in describing the wrong claimed to have been done by defendant. It avers that the contention is that “the child’s death was accelerated by the negligence of the hospital attendants in and about the treatment which they gave. We do not contend that her death was…