Charter Medical Corp. v. Curry

Deen, Chief Judge.

Appellants, a nursing home and certain designated employees, appeal following a jury verdict awarding plaintiffs, children of the deceased, a judgment in the amount of $10,000.

1. Appellants complain of the refusal of the court to give the following timely submitted, written request to charge: "The court next instructs you that where a party is confronted with an emergency, not arising from its own negligence, it is not held to the same circumspection of conduct that it would be held to if it were acting without the compulsion of the emergency. Thus, when the party’s agents…