Barnes v. St. Francis Hospital & School of Nursing, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fontron, J.:

The defendant, St. Francis Hospital and School of Nursing, Inc., has appealed from a $22,500 judgment rendered against it for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, Myrtle M. Barnes, while a patient in the hospital. The parties will be referred to as plaintiff or Mrs. Barnes, on the one side, and defendant or hospital, on the other.

On October 27, 1967, plaintiff was admitted to the St. Francis Hospital by her attending physician, Dr. Milbank, for a hemorrhoidectomy. She was operated the next day. Following surgery she devolped a…