Hill v. Leigh Memorial Hospital, Inc.
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtCarrico, J.
Alice Hill, while a patient in the Leigh Memorial Hospital in Norfolk, fell and fractured her right arm. She filed a motion for judgment against the hospital corporation and three of the hospital’s nurses, Dorothy Harmon, Margaret Parke and Sarah Brown, seeking to recover damages for her injury.
In her motion for judgment, the plaintiff alleged that the nurses were negligent while she was a patient in the hospital and that the hospital was negligent in the breach of its corporate duty to use due care in the selection and retention of its employees. The defendants, in their grounds of defense,…
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