Gilmore v. St. Anthony Hospital

IRWIN, Vice Chief Justice.

Appellants, Wanda G. Gilmore and Joe Lee Gilmore, sought to recover damages for injuries allegedly sustained by Mrs. Gilmore from a blood transfusion while a patient at St. Anthony Hospital. Mrs. Gilmore allegedly contracted hepatitis from blood furnished by appellee, Oklahoma City Community Blood Bank, Inc. (Blood Bank).

This cause was first presented to this Court on a Certified Interlocutory Order in Gilmore v. St. Anthony Hospital, et al., Okl., 516 P.2d 248 (1973), where we construed 63 O.S.1971, § 2151,1 and held that it is necessary to establish negligence…