Reifschneider v. Nebraska Methodist Hospital

The plaintiff, Rose Marie Reifschneider, appeals from an order of the trial court granting the defendant’s motion for summary judgment and dismissing the plaintiff’s petition.

The plaintiff filed this action in contract against the defendant, Nebraska Methodist Hospital, alleging that on April 4, 1977, the plaintiff entered the defendant’s hospital as an emergency patient, suffering from convulsions and faintness. The amended petition alleged that the plaintiff was placed on a rolling stretcher by employees of the defendant and left unattended, whereupon she fell from the cart and suffered…