Johns Hopkins Hospital v. Genda

This case is before us on appeal from a jury verdict of $50,000 awarded to plaintiffs-appellees for personal injury to their infant son resulting from a fragment of a needle left in his body at the time of a surgical operation upon Ms heart. The case was tried in the Superior Court of Baltimore City. Before the case was submitted to the jury, defendant Johns Hopkins Hospital moved for a directed verdict. The denial of this motion and the trial court’s failure to issue proper jury instructions in regard to proximate cause were the subject of this appeal.

Robert J. Genda, Jr., son of appellees,…