Ault v. Ross General Hospital

Plaintiff, Mrs. Ault (hereinafter called the patient), and her husband sued defendant hospital for injuries received by the patient when she fell while getting *79out of bed at night in an unlighted room in the hospital. The trial before a jury resulted in a verdict for defendant and plaintiffs appeal from the judgment entered thereon.

The patient had been admitted to undergo an operation for cataracts on her eyes. Her physician gave the hospital no instructions that they should exercise any unusual precautions with the patient. There is evidence that a nurse’s aid had shown the patient the call…