Scoggins v. Vicksburg Hospital, Inc.

The appellant, E. T. Scoggins, plaintiff in the court below, sued the appellee, Vicksburg Hospital, Incorporated, as defendant, in the Circuit Court of Warren County, for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the appellant as a result of a newsboy entering the appellant’s hospital room on January 27, 1954, while the appellant, who was a patient in the appellee’s hospital, was asleep, and striking the appellant on the leg with a newspaper, thereby startling the appellant and causing him to jump or fall out of bed.

The plaintiff alleged in his declaration that he was…