Gray v. Sherwood

This is a wrongful death action.

On 6 January 1980, Mr. Evart Bail died as a result of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm while a patient of the defendant doctors at Druid City Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. During the eight days that Bail was a patient in that hospital, he was treated for pancreatitis. Betty Jane Gray, as administratrix of the estate of her father, Evart Bail, alleges his death was due to the negligence of the defendants: Dr. James W. Sherwood, Dr. Henry G. Herrod, and Dr. James T. Gascoigne and others.

The case was tried to a jury in Tuscaloosa, which returned a verdict for…