Barbour v. South Chicago Community Hospital

Plaintiff Marjorie Barbour brings this appeal seeking reversal of a trial court’s order dismissing counts VI, VII, IX, and X of her 13-count, fifth amended complaint. Barbour filed her complaint after she discovered that an unauthorized tubal ligation had been performed on her in 1967 while she was a patient at defendant South Chicago Community Hospital (the hospital). Each of the dismissed counts relates to conduct allegedly committed by the hospital. Count VI sounds in battery, count VII asserts the reasons why Barbour discovered her injury on October 30, 1980 (13 years after the alleged…