Hannon v. Pulaski County Memorial Hospital

BILLINGS, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Lucille Hannon’s suit for damages against defendant Pulaski County Memorial Hospital for alleged negligence in 1972 was dismissed by the trial court on defendant’s motion that the petition failed to state a cause of action because of defendant’s sovereign immunity. We affirm.

The Missouri Supreme Court had occasion to consider the question of governmental immunity from tort liability in four decisions handed down September 12, 1977. In Wheeler v. St. Clair County Hospital District No. 1, 557 S.W.2d 233 (Mo.banc 1977), No. 60012, the court held a hospital…