Neely v. St. Francis Hospital & School of Nursing

The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an appeal in a damage action for personal injuries, proximately caused by negligent treatment of plaintiff by defendant hospital, from the trial court's judgment in favor of plaintiff based upon answers to special questions and the verdict of the jury and all other rulings, orders and decisions thereon including: Overruling of the hospital's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, and its motions to set aside answers to special questions, and to grant a new trial as well as the overruling of the hospital's demurrer to plaintiff's evidence and the overruling of a renewal of such demurrer along with a motion for directed verdict. On April 1, 1956, plaintiff, a woman thirty-seven years of age with a life expectancy of 31.75 years, was employed by Midwestern Industries in Wichita as a PBX operator at a salary of $75.00 a week. About 11:00 o'clock p.m. while she was working on a pair of sunglasses, the lens broke and she sustained a cut about one half inch long on the middle finger of her left hand.