Stockton v. Lansiquot

Plaintiff Henry Haines Stockton appeals a summary judgment in favor of defendants in this case which arose out of the circumstances surrounding his wife’s death during her stay at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. The district court held that Stockton’s claims against the Hospital were barred by the res judicata effect of a final judgment rendered in favor of the Hospital in a suit tried to a jury in state court and affirmed on appeal on substantially the same issues and claims as those asserted in the instant case. See H. Haines Stockton v. Sarasota County Public Hospital Board, No. 84-2042 (Fla.…