Palmer v. Clarksdale Hospital

Appellant sued the appellee for damages for expenses and loss of consortium arising out of injuries alleged to have been negligently inflicted upon his wife during the course of an operation while a pay-patient in the appellee hospital. The negligence claimed was that Miss Louise Francis, the superintendent of the appellee hospital, who was serving as circulating nurse in the operating room, so applied heavy canvas straps to the feet and ankles of appellant’s wife as to cut off the blood circulation and failed to release or loosen the straps at necessary intervals so as to permit the…