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Birmingham Baptist Hospital v. Branton
118 So. 741
Ala.
1928
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*1 46á money presence possession parties. has In of its should the solicitors of Da- which the discharge 508, applied gage debt, Rice, in vidson al. Ala. reduction of the mort et 201 78 862. v. So. apply so A rule refuses to such mon different where the and obtains decree ey, court, mortgagor may open par bill a' is rendered in ties have had the maintain an or where the (cid:127) compel ample accounting redemption, opportunity to and to amend the Kirkwood, application 534, of of funds to the reduction bill. Hume 216 Ala. 113 the v. mortgage Smith, 613; 28, al., 190 et the Ala. funds have the powers, debt. Johnson v. So. Hale v. 201 Ala. 75 Hale 522, true, though 150; Cody, 674, 67 401. the 96 So. This is So. So. Crowson v. 209 Ala. acquired in tbe defendant 875. been corporate here, light not its exercise of acts within On the and in of record the 677; authorities, opinion L. ultra vires. 7 R. C. these complainant we are of the are Meadowcroft, op- given German Nat. 95 Ill. Bank v. have been an should Emigh, 124, 137; portunity Rep. Am. Rankin 218 rul- 35 v. to amend to the the bill meet 27, 672, 915; Emigh ings demurrers, dismissing U. 30 L. Ed. S. S. 54 before the Ct. on the Earling, 128, 565, v. 134 Wis. W. 115 N. 27 bill. (N. S.) sustaining L. R. A. 243. af- The decree the demurrer is firmed, dismissing part to National as such banks matters are but that of decree domicile, aside, citizens their of the state of and the is set and leave bill vacated subject jurisdiction courts, granted complainant to the her of the state is to the amend to days filing as other Petri v. Nat. citizens. Commercial bill within 20 from the cer- 325, Chicago, 644, 142 Bank of U. parte Jones, 12 S. S. Ct. tificate of the clerk court with of this 1144; failing register court, and, 35 L. Ed. Ex 164 U. S. so circuit 691, 222, 601; do, 17 S. Ct. 41 L. Ed. Continental will stand bill dismissed.. Memphis Buford, Nat. Bank part, part reversed, 191 v. U. S. Affirmed in in ren- .119, 54, 119; dered, 24 S. Ct. 48 Ed. V. L. Guthrie and remanded. Harkness, 148, 4, 199 26 L. S. S. Ct. 50 Ed. U. 130, 433; 689, 321, ANDERSON, J., 4 Ann. Cas. 3 R. C. L. §§ C. SAYRE JJ., 322. THOMAS, concur. sought The relief relates same to parties, property and between the same 741) (118 So. subject objection it is not is it 1923, 6526; multifarious. Code Forc § v. BIRMINGHAM BAPTIST HOSPITAL 946.) (6 Foster, 218, 879; BRANTON. Div. heimer v. 192 Ala. 68 So. al., 287, Webb al. et v. Butler et 192 Ala. 68 Supreme 1, Court of 1928. Alabama. Nov. 1916D, So. 369, 815; Ann. Cas. et Mitchell Rehearing 6, Dec. Denied Cudd, 162, al. v. 196 Ala. 71 So. 660. The bill seeks' to have credited on the mortgage the amount A. Ezzell due B. from respondent lumber, transporting and, though the averments of the bill be sufficiently showing agreement an treated to this end, necessary party, Ezzell is grounds taking point the were of demurrer this taken, therefore the well demurrer I-Ioge, error. was sustained without Prout v. 28; 38, Marx, 57 Ala. Lunsford v. 214 Ala. 336; Greenville, City 106 So. Baisden v. Singo 215 Ala. ard, et al. v. Brain Gillespie 55 So. al. et al., Gibbs et appellant insists, however, not have should been dismissed bill with giving complainant opportunity an out to amend, citing Haigler Pollock Co. et al., Olds v. Marshall, report appears cases it From those appeals that the from which the decrees were vacation, prosecuted in rendered not time, tbe rule these has term but- cases right applied, been where amend had exercised, previously to a decree not ren- been intervening period dered in the between the docket, submission was where tak-

calls of en and the case a, held at future decree pronounced open date, not court *3 Taylor Altman, Birmingham, Koenig, & appellee.

for brought THOMAS, un- The action J. by the father statute der the homicide Plaintiff’s cause minor son. of his in the death counts counts. All other is stated two gist the cause -withdrawn. H, as follows: action is contained count negligently them- conducted “Defendants so delivery of said or about the birth selves Coleman, Spain Coleman, Harris Burns proximate plaintiff, as a con- minor son of sequence appellant. Birmingham, Stewart, all of plaintiff’s negligence, said mi- of said son died.” nor Count I reads: negligently them- minor conducted so “Defendants nursing plaintiff’s said about selves in or consequence him, proximate said she went out the hall and Mrs. a to call son that as plaintiff’s charge negligence, minor son died.” Wood told Miss said Stroud that she had my case, that she would call Dr. Garber and. counts, being to said I overruled whenever needed him.” Demurrer general pleaded' issue in defendant consent, give with in evi- short leave account of the oc- witness to what which, pleaded, any immediately birth, preceding, if well curred dence would matter at the legal immediately with defense and constitute thereafter was : give prove plaintiff evidence to leave to o’clock, “When she came in it was about any legal reply The trial resulted in thereto. Wood, my temperature —Mrs. she took —and judgment plaintiff. my room, and asked to leave the *4 patients general hospital me, The duties of to a she had to examine and when she did that go get something eat, I before he left he room Ass’n, him told to and and to are discussed in Tucker v. Inf. Mobile remain the asked her to in 572, 1167; 1915D, 4, R. 191 Ala. So. L. A. 68 got back, me until he and with she said Birmingham Baptist Hospital Branton, v. would, she examine and as soon as he left she did not 326, 79, So. and need not be re- Ala. 216 113 me, and before she left out I asked peated. doctor, laughed her to call the and she and general This court has established a suffering! said I that would be more than I was rights line of demarcation between the civil doctor, I then the last one would need a and she was befor.e of mother and child to be It is the born. baby I until saw the was born. * * * separate concurrent with mother and child injury existence of the push-button by birth; “I parental had a or a buzzer that I and could the my head, pushed that, touch over I and but the no basis for before birth is action the response nobody button. After the child in came to that touch of by personal damages rep in or its the child I was born it heard mother of an child resentative. unborn The strangle crying, like it was I and called a may it, damages recover to her in and ventre nurse, Stroud, they and Miss knew and saw — mere, injury damage sa too “if such is and not happened, had what the she went out in —and ‘ Eran remote.” Stanford v. St. Lonis-San doctor, got hall and called the and she back Ry. Co., 611, 566; cisco Ala. Die Am. 214 108 So. got there, in there before Dr. Gheves Northampton, 14, trich v. Rep. 242; Mass. 138 52 that 10 15 minutes after the or child was was Hospital, I born. heard the child make a noise it v. after St. Luke’s 184 Allaire cry. trying say was born it 359, like was to I can’t 225, 638, Ill. A. 56 N. L. R. Am. E. 4S 75 good whether there was deal of a blood Rep. H St. The demurrers to counts then, after-birth up I there because didn’t raise properly I And the overruled. crying- see, I could hear to but the child rights of this mother in childbirth and about strangling’.” like it was Birmingham Baptist were pital Hos considered in v. Branton, 326, Ala. 113 So. 216 testimony There other wias that the umbil- mother of the fact and wife testified baby’s ical cord was around the time it was neck at the birth; as to that to the the husband she told born, and that this was a cir- get something eat, the and before he left to likely, caused, than cumstance that the The “more requested latter the the to remain with nurse baby practically born dead or so.” to be wife, confined, about and that she to tight baby’s not about the neck. cord was absence, should not the in his to leave room baby The breathe, stated that the never did nurse request acquiesced; which nurse that the though the heart of- the child beat previous said witness to nurse had examined perceptible. was thereafter, departure; the husband’s and be- Dr. Cheves testified that when he called room, fore the left the nurse witness “asked patient’s room; went to the that the “head doctor, laughed her to call a and she born,” was he the child de “finished suffering said” that witness “would be more” livering very the child” with the cord loose doctor”; before she “would need a said that neck, cord, around the cut the and finished nurse was one the last witness “saw until the delivery, baby and “after the the was born baby “pushed born”; was that had witness breathe”; pulsat it the was never did “cord aid, the button or buzzer” to summon and ing minute;” six a times that “the normal response call; pri- there nowas such to that pulse when a child is is cord 120”; born about child, or to the birth of the did “feel she baby “perfectly that was white moving” abdomen; child that in her or womb ; all over” that if death was to stran its due witness, objection over defendant’s and gulation by tight a its reason of cord about exceptions, permitted testify was fol- to as neck, blue; body of the child been would have low's: opinion that was his that it child “ * * * you State whether or not told the dead; was it never or born did breathe there, hall, nurse your student nurse —a breath; —what attempt to are that “stillborn babies was, condition a and asked her call doc- white.” o’clock, tor, before, about 11 or some time or giving refusing of The rules of the or immediately before born? child was general requested affirmative instructions are Aiken, well understood. McMillan v. 205 Stroud, nurse, “I Miss asked -the little student Eire Southern States Garber, right, to call Dr. said all she 4G8 jury ing not disclose does Kronenberg, statement to the Ins. Co. 63; 199 Ala. we ruling court for which Massey, trial Penticost v. Fincher, statements admitted reverse. The would were Allen v. pre- fact issues material questions within of fact— material 946. The 65 So. whether Mrs. hospital complaint by of the sented Branton was admitted patient; father. whether defendants as a hospital amount of the “in la- husband’s or was

knew were informed she subject that made the bor,” duly requested different from bill was call of or that she Hospital physician, Norwood the suit the cliild her was a rea- whether there Jones, This compliance request sonable to such such .showing, tending competent proof or assistance, whether or not child was part show, hos on the phy- to pital a contract bom due assistance of nurse without prem required immediately before, of, in the sician, render services at the time immediately child; ises. after the birth of the for a new trial. We was no motion There whether it was stillborn or was normal and carefully assign- birth; the several have considered at alive and whether the birth it after thereon, arguments perished based ments of error and from the lack of attention —were opinion judgment jury. for the decision are of the (cid:127) *5 be affirmed. the lower court should argument Appellant concludes the affirmative instruction with observation: ANDERSON, J., . and C. SAYRE duty “Certainly owing an un no could JJ„ BROWN, concur. knowledge of its exist child -without born Affirmed. by his in ence.” suit is the father for Rehearing. On juries premises wife, as to his born, him and child and as to his about to be rehearing Application PER CURIAM. duty child, measure was that wife justices concurring. overruled. All the skill, diligence by care, degree of used hospitals community, generally in that express by dertaking. implied the un contract of nurse to examine When the patient requested the husband, the absence tendency evidence was a there request (118 794) the reasonable that the he made return; nurse remain until his with the wife UNION INDEMNITY CO. v. WEBSTER. tendency 050.) (6 Div. there was a in evidence of the patient, stallation they call of the bell Supreme Oct. Court of Alabama. requested pro same, made of the use purpose Rehearing fessional Denied assistance incident Dee. right hospital, of the contract in the given it was not of her call immediate physician presence or the of a nurse at the before, at, crucial moments and after birth of the This was basis for child. duty fact material ascertainment of premises, failure which the for the .of right may There rest his action. refusing error in defend was no reversible charges X. ant’s denominated See W Conway Robinson, authorities below you charge Charge Z, as follows: “I you baby gentlemen if was still- believe plain- you then find a verdict for born tiff,” was, cannot error, for the use without refused you hypoth- “if the words believe” without Walls v. esis oh a belief the evidence. Co., Fertilizer Decatur Birmingham Nelson, Co. B. R. Scott v. L. N. R. R. Co., So. 171: carefully several considered the We have objections exceptions on admission of evidence, find no error. assignment upon of error rested plaintiff’s open- ruling court as to of the

Case Details

Case Name: Birmingham Baptist Hospital v. Branton
Court Name: Supreme Court of Alabama
Date Published: Nov 1, 1928
Citation: 118 So. 741
Docket Number: 6 Div. 946.
Court Abbreviation: Ala.
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