Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital

This action was brought by the plaintiff Dorrence' Kenneth Darling II, a minor, by his father and next friend, Dorrence Kenneth Darling, to recover damages allegedly occasioned by the alleged negligence of the defendant, Charleston Community Memorial Hospital, an Illinois not for profit corporation, in the furnishing of hospital services to the plaintiff. Originally, there was another defendant, Dr. John R. Alexander, a medical doctor, — Count I being against the Hospital, and Count II against the Doctor. The ad damnum in each Count was $207,430. The injured plaintiff had ultimately lost one…