Jones v. John's Community Hospital

OPINION

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by plaintiff Ethel B. Jones from a take-nothing judgment in a medical malpractice case.

Oscar B. Jones and wife brought this suit against Dr. Constance I. Hanna and John’s Community Hospital of Taylor. Mr. Jones ■ died after suit was filed and Ethel B. Jones his wife was substituted as plaintiff.

On February 12, 1976, Jones and his wife were involved in an automobile collision in Taylor. Jones sustained a fracture of one of his left ribs and a laceration of his left lung. He was taken to the emergency room of John’s Community Hospital.

Dr. Hanna,…