Mississippi Baptist Hospital v. Holmes

McGehee, O. J.

The widower and the children of Mrs. George R. Holmes brought this suit for damages and recovered a judgment in the sum of $25,000' against the Mississippi Baptist Hospital and one of its laboratory technicians on account of the death of the said Mrs. Holmes on June 18, 1949, which is alleged to have occurred as the proximate result of the negligent .act of the technician done on the night of June 16, 1949, in mislabeling in her name the Type “2” blood intended for a Mrs. Holder (a patient in another room on the same floor of the hospital whose blood was typed as such by him on…