Birmingham Baptist Hospital v. Orange

MERRILL, Justice.

Appellant appeals from a judgment against it for personal injuries received by appellee as a result of an operation. The verdict was for $600,000; the trial court granted appellant a new trial unless there was a remittitur of damages in excess of $425,000, and appellee filed the remittitur.

Assignments of error 8 through 20 are concerned with the overruling of appellant’s objections to the sustaining of challenges for cause by appellee of seven different jurors, all of whom were members of the Baptist Denomination.

After hearing an explanation of the relationship of the…