Ray v. Tucson Medical Center

PHELPS, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court directing a verdict in favor of defendant and the judgment entered thereon, and from an order denying plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.

The parties will be hereinafter designated as plaintiffs and defendant.

The facts are that defendant is a corporate charitable institution engaged in the business of operating a general hospital in the city of Tucson. The plaintiff Essie Ray on January 24, 1948, entered the defendant’s hospital for care and treatment of a torn sciatic nerve from which she was suffering. By February 29th she…