| Show nee lee Hospital 1 I 1 Settles Case Against It Tile The case which Mr r and Mrs r il rt n il ih Sessions Se of Clearfield brought against the tic Thomas D. D D Die I n t Memorial em I hospital hO lital of Ogden 0 for II li of a m hospital nurse which 1 I hid ic Il I in ill it the tile death of their six i t ji-ar ji ear old 01 son soil Joseph Sessions was wu settled out lilt of o court with a sum of mif money mOlley paid by bythe bye the th e Die Ihl hospital Attorney for the plaintiff was Rojal Hoal Douglas of O gd March 29 1931 1934 the child under tinder underwent went II an ait operation for appendicitis at a t the tile hospital Dr Rutledge the thc attending a ordered an nil in injection in- in j of 01 one olle fourth grain of co co- codeine deine l for the time little patient The supervisor ilor s of nurses left the tie order with ith a student nurse who by mis mis- mistake take ahe taJ t ad ail ministered morphine in instead in in- stead tead s of codeine which caused causell the child's childs c death March II arch 31 1934 Mr II r Sessions Session lost a district court damage d d suit slit on Oil the tile grounds rounds that the ile t hospital ho was a 3 charitable in in- institution s Twice ice the case was ap- ap P to the Utah supreme court April April 25 1938 the tIme high court up up- upheld held ii hel l the tie plea of the tIle plaintiff de- de decia cia rinK a 1 hospital even eren though a tab mr Institution is ls Viable liable for tor- forthe the negligence of its nurses The Time case was finally settled Feb 14 1939 |
