Horn v. St. Peter's Hospital

¶1 Eric Horn appeals from the District Court’s post-jury-trial orders overturning the verdict in Horn’s favor, and granting judgment to St. Peter’s Hospital (Hospital). We affirm.

¶2 We restate the issue on appeal as follows:

Whether the District Court erred in granting a judgment as a matter of law in favor of St. Peter’s Hospital following a jury verdict in favor of Eric Horn.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

¶3 Horn was injured in April 2011 when he fell from a roof, fracturing his heels and a vertebra. His injuries required several surgeries, a seventeen-day stay in the Hospital, and a…