Metropolitan Dade County, Board of County Commissioners v. Wyche

SHAW, Judge.

The appellee, Theodore Wyche, was kicked in the right side by an unruly inmate of Jackson Memorial Hospital in Dade County, Florida on November 12,1976. Appellants and appellee agree that there was immediate pain and that the appellee was treated at the hospital emergency room the day following the injury for vomiting and pain. There was no diagnosis of hernia and appellee, upon his release from the hospital, continued to work despite occasional pain in the right inguinal area. Several weeks pri- or to March 2, 1978 the pain became more acute; appellant was examined by Dr. Rod-man…