Hutchinson v. Board of Trustees of University of Alabama

MADDOX, Justice.

Petitioner, Willie Pearl Hutchinson, plaintiff in the trial court, and appellant in the Court of Civil Appeals, filed her petition for certiorari in this Court to review the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, 47 Ala.App. 460, 256 So.2d 279. We concluded that there was probability of merit in the petition and issued the writ. Briefly, the facts are as follows:

Petitioner, an expectant mother, entered University Plospital in Birmingham, as a paying patient, to give birth to her child. Upon her discharge from the hospital, she was given a baby to take home. Three days later,…