Galloway v. McDonalds Restaurants of Nevada, Inc.

OPINION

By the Court,

Gunderson, J.:

On September 14, 1981, Timothy Stahr Galloway entered Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital in Las Vegas with his three- and-a-half-year-old son, Timothy Curtis, who had somehow received serious burns on his right buttocks, calf and thigh. In attempting to explain how the boy had been so badly burned, Galloway told the admitting physician that, two days previously, he had placed the child “on a hot metal merry-go-round.” Subsequent to his son’s hospital care, the senior Galloway, as the *535child’s guardian ad litem, sued McDonalds Restaurants of Nevada for damages,…