Sutherland v. Saint Francis Hospital, Inc.

OPALA, Justice:

In this negligent-tort litigation, occasioned by an entrant’s fall on hospital premises, our task is to restate familiar common-law principles of land possessor’s liability and apply them to the undisputed facts (and inferences therefrom) presented at the trial level (on hospital’s motion for summary judgment) to determine if there were any genuine issues as to material facts. Flick v. Crouch, Okl., 434 P.2d 256, 262 [1967] and Weeks v. Wedgewood Village, Inc., Okl., 554 P.2d 780, 785 [1976],

Early one morning entrant’s wife left home by ambulance for emergency treatment at the…