Griggs v. Morehead Memorial Hospital

BECTON, Judge.

Plaintiff, Lelia A. Griggs, brought suit against defendant Morehead Memorial Hospital to recover damages for injuries suffered during her hospital stay in April, 1983. The superior court entered summary judgment for the hospital, and Lelia Griggs appeals. We reverse and remand to the superior court for trial.

I

Lelia Griggs was admitted to the Intensive-Coronary Care Unit (ICCU) of Morehead Memorial Hospital on 3 April 1983, suffering respiratory and cardiac arrest. Mrs. Griggs was eighty-nine years of age, somewhat overweight, and had a history of diabetes, ischemic heart disease…