Hialeah Hospital, Inc. v. Johnson

HAVERFIELD, Judge.

Defendant-appellants, Hialeah Hospital, Inc. and American Motorists Insurance Company, seek review of a jury verdict and final judgment entered in favor of plaintiff-appellee, Reba D. Johnson, in her suit for personal injuries allegedly caused by the hospital’s negligence.

Mrs. Johnson, a sixty-seven year old woman who has been paralyzed from the waist down following a spinal operation in 1954, was admitted to Hialeah Hospital by her attending physician for treatment of a persistent fever and decubitus ulcers —bed or pressure sores. With plaintiff’s condition progressing…