Kastler v. Iowa Methodist Hospital

193 N.W.2d 98 (1971)

Betty Colleen KASTLER, Appellant,

v.

IOWA METHODIST HOSPITAL, Appellee.

No. 53668.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 15, 1971.

Reynoldson, Brown & Van Werden, Osceola, for appellant.

Patterson, Lorentzen, Duffield, Timmons & Irish, Des Moines, for appellee.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

The principal question to be decided here is whether a hospital patient generated a jury issue on the question of negligence in this action against the hospital for personal injuries.

Plaintiff Betty Colleen Kastler, 25 at the time of the events in question, is married to Howard Kastler and lives on a farm near…