Osborn v. Public Hospital District 1

This appeal results from the trial court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s action for the insufficiency of the evidence to establish a prima facie case, at the close of the plaintiff’s case in a jury trial.

The plaintiff (appellant), Omer H. Osborn, an 84-year-old man, was a patient in Samaritan Hospital at Moses Lake, owned and operated by Public Hospital District No. 1 *202for Grant County, Washington, who was alleged, to have fallen from a bed in defendant’s (respondent’s) hospital and sustained injuries for which the plaintiff sought to recover. The plaintiff was admitted to the hospital about 12…