Word v. Henderson

*782Eberhardt, Judge.

1. The plaintiff charged in her petition that the defendant hospital was negligent in giving her child a lethal dose of Demerol and in not giving the child a proper dose of Demerol. Clara Jenkins, the nurse who administered the alleged improper dose of Demerol, stated in her affidavit filed in behalf of the defendant hospital’s motion for summary judgment that she gave the decedent 25 milligrams of Demerol in accordance with the physician’s instructions. The uncontradicted evidence disclosed that this was a proper dosage for a child of the decedent’s age. In a deposition…