Roberson v. Factor

HUMPHREYS, Justice.

Appellant, Elizabeth Roberson, was hospitalized in appellee Baylor Hospital in July 1975, and underwent surgery on an enlarged ovary by appellees Dr. Dennis Factor and Dr. Michael Putman on August 1. She sued both doctors and the hospital claiming negligence in this operation resulting in injury to her pubic bone. From an instructed verdict granted in favor of all appellees, appellant appeals on the grounds that the instructed verdict was error because there was evidence of negligence and proximate cause and that the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur should have been applied to…