Tucker v. Mobile Infirmary Ass'n
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Samuel B. Browne. Action by Fannie Tucker against the Mobile Infirmary Association for damages for personal injury while being treated at said institution. Judgment for defendant on the pleadings, and plaintiff takes nonsuit, and brings this appeal.
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Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Samuel B. Browne. Action by Fannie Tucker against the Mobile Infirmary Association for damages for personal injury while being treated at said institution. Judgment for defendant on the pleadings, and plaintiff takes nonsuit, and brings this appeal. The following is the complaint: Count 1. Plaintiff claims of defendant * * * as damages for that heretofore, to wit, * * defendant was in the business of conducting an infirmary for the treatment of patients requiring operations and other medical treatment, and for a reasonable compensation,…
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
Plaintiff (appellant here) brought this suit against the Mobile Infirmary Association for the recovery of damages alleged to- have been sustained by being scalded with boiling water both internally and. externally as a result of the negligence of one of the-nurses employed by defendant in care of the plaintiff,, and while such nurse was engaged in the duties of said employment. There were two counts in the complaint..
*575The reporter will set out counts 1 and 2 and pleas 2 and 3 in his report of the case. Demurrers to these pleas were overruled and replications were filed. Plaintiff took nonsuit…
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