McCoy v. Georgia Baptist Hospital

Carley, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellants, Mr. and Mrs. McCoy, brought the instant tort suit against defendant-appellee Georgia Baptist Hospital (Hospital) and others. Count I sought damages for the mental *496distress occasioned by the alleged intentional and malicious mishandling of the body of appellants’ stillborn child and by a certain telephone communication from the Hospital. Count II alleged the existence of a contract of burial and sought damáges “for the breach of contract in a reasonable sum for the mental suffering and anguish [appellants] have endured.”

During the discovery stage, the…