Adkins v. St. Francis Hospital of Charleston, W. Va.

Caplan, Judge:

In this civil action, instituted in the Court of Common Pleas of Kanawha County, the Plaintiff, Clarence Lee Adkins, seeks to recover from the defendant, St. Francis Hospital of Charleston, West Virginia, damages for personal injuries caused by the alleged negligence of an employee of the defendant hospital.

The plaintiff, in March, 1962, was stricken with an illness which resulted in partial paralysis, temporarily destroying his eyesight and impairing the use of his left arm and left leg. He was thereupon admitted to the defendant hospital for care and treatment and was placed…