Enell v. Baptist Hospital

Appellants sought damages from the appel-lee, a corporation, for the negligent act of one of its employees, a nurse, in having administered to Mrs. Enell, then a pay patient at the hospital, certain medicine that in fact had been intended for another patient in an adjoining room, which proximately caused serious injuries to her, including the death of her baby; the proof they offered either conclusively established as facts all that is thus stated, or made issues out of them for the jury.

As .additional predicate for the claimed liability, they in substance also alleged: “That appellee is a…