Reedy v. Mid-State Baptist Hospital

Petitioner sued defendant for compensation for total and permanent disability she alleged had resulted from a back injury she had suffered August 8, 1959, while she was employed by defendant as a “scrub nurse.” She claimed that as she was standing on a short foot stool, helping a surgeon lift a patient from an operating table to a stretcher, the “stool turned and she was thrown and her back severely twisted,” causing the disability sued for.

Upon the trial, after hearing the testimony and considering it with the allegations of the petition, the Trial Judge found that petitioner had been fully…