Hill Ex Rel. Hill v. Boles

I respectfully dissent from that portion of the principal opinion which reverses the judgment in favor of St. Louis Children’s Hospital and remands the case for a new trial on plaintiff’s claim against the hospital.

Plaintiff’s petition asserts that excessive amounts' of oxygen were administered between the dates of May 19 and May 24, 1969, while plaintiff was a patient in Children’s Hospital under the care of Dr. Boles. As a result, says plaintiff, he suffered retro-lental fibroplasia which caused total blindness in plaintiff’s right eye and the loss of all sight in the left eye except for…