Hansen Ex Rel. Hansen v. Smith

OPINION

RANDALL, Judge.

Veronica Hansen appeals the trial court order denying her a new trial, seeking review of an unfavorable evidentiary ruling made at trial. We affirm.

FACTS

Following his birth at Hutchinson Community Hospital on July 4,1971, Scott Hansen was transferred to the hospital nursery. At 11:00 p.m. that evening when night nurse Mott began her shift, she was told that during the previous shift mucus had been suctioned from Scott’s air passage. At 11:00 a.m. she suctioned blood-tinged mucus from Scott’s air passage. She did not inform Scott’s doctor.

At 1:00 a.m. when she next…