Joseph v. W. H. Groves Latter Day Saints Hospital

CROCKETT, Justice.

Ten days following an operation for the removal of a tumor, Mrs. Lucille Joseph died in the L. D. S. Hospital of a “lower nephron nephrosis” (inflammation of the kidneys). Plaintiff, her husband, brought this action for himself and children, alleging that the hospital had negligently administered a transfusion of incompatible blood which brought on the kidney infection, proximately causing her death.

The two basic issues contested by the parties were: (1) Did Mrs. Joseph receive an incompatible blood transfusion from which she died; and (2) if so, was the defendant hospital…