Fuerst v. Methodist Hospital South

OPINION

COOPER, Justice.

This cause is before us on appeal from the trial judge’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s action as being barred by the statute of limitations.

On July 22, 1975, the plaintiff, Marguerite Fuerst, filed a complaint in which she alleged, in substance, that she formerly had been employed as a nurse by the defendant, Methodist Hospital, that on April 2, 1974, she was discharged by the defendant on the basis of an unfounded complaint made against her by a patient at the hospital, and that this discharge was an unlawful termination of her contract of employment. In its answer, the…