Mabel W. Hitchings v. Albemarle Hospital

DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

Mabel Hitchings brought a civil action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Her complaint alleged that while she was a visitor of a paying patient in the Albemarle Hospital, she was injured in a fall from an unsafe stairway, due to the negligence of the hospital. The District Court granted the hospital’s motion for summary judgment in its favor, and Mabel Hitchings has appealed to us.

From the opinion of the District Judge, we quote:

“The Court finds as facts the following :

“That this is an action for personal injuries for alleged…