Simmons v. St. Clair Memorial Hospital

ROWLEY, Judge:

St. Clair Memorial Hospital (St. Clair Hospital) appeals from the trial court’s order granting appellee’s, Thomas Simmons’, Administrator of the Estate of Richard Simmons, 1 motion for a new trial in this medical malpractice action. Upon a thorough review of the record in this case, we affirm the trial court’s order in part, and reverse in part.

Richard D. Simmons (decedent) committed suicide on September 1, 1977, while he was a patient in the psychiatric unit of St. Clair Hospital. Testimony at the trial in this case indicated that decedent used ties from one or two hospital…