Thomas v. St. Joseph Hospital

PEDEN, Justice.

Josephine E. Thomas appeals from a take-nothing judgment rendered in a wrongful death and survivor’s suit brought in strict tort liability, negligence, and breach of warranty against St. Joseph Hospital and Whitehouse Company. Mrs. Thomas’s husband, Burrell Thomas, died in St. Joseph Hospital after suffering burns over a substantial portion of his body when he dropped a lighted match and ignited his hospital gown. The trial judge directed a verdict in favor of Whitehouse, a supplier of hospital gowns, and third-party defendants M. Lowenstein and Will Ross, Inc. The jury failed…