Green v. Hospital Building Auth. of City of Bessemer

ALMON, Justice.*

This is an action for personal injuries sustained by appellant, plaintiff below, while she was a non-indigent patient in appellee city hospital. According to appellant’s deposition, an attendant nurse employed by the hospital had closed a door on which appellant had been supporting herself with one hand. Appellant’s left ring finger was caught between the door and the door frame resulting in a hematoma and a fracture of the distal phalanx.

*469The parties stipulated that appellee was, at the time of the alleged incident, engaged in the operation of a hospital under the authority of…