Slaten v. Earl Campbell Clinic Hospital

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

Petitioner sustained severe personal injuries while a patient at the respondent hospital.1 Petitioner jumped or fell from an unguarded window of his third floor room and received spinal injuries resulting in paraplegia. It is insisted on his behalf that he was suffering from severe mental depression and that he jumped from the hospital window in an attempt to commit suicide. At best, however, this is only one permissible inference which might be drawn from the testimony, since there were no eyewitnesses and the petitioner himself-has no memory of the occurrence.

*484Joined…