Garner v. Kees

Steele Hays, Justice.

This is the appeal from a verdict in favor of the defendants in a suit for the tort of outrage. The appellants are four daughters of Mrs. Mamie Ashlock, deceased. Appellees are the Southern Nursing Home, its owner, administrator, director of nursing and dietary manager.

The lawsuit giving rise to this appeal was brought by daughters of Mamie Ashlock and by her estate. Mrs. Ashlock was a patient at the defendant nursing home when she died. She was admitted to the nursing home on December 3,1987, and died on April 6, 1988. Because she was a diabetic, Mrs. Ashlock was limited…