Berndt v. Georgia Osteopathic Hospital, Inc.
Berndt v. Georgia Osteopathic Hospital, Inc.
Opinion of the Court
Wanda Mae Berndt appeals from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to Georgia Osteopathic Hospital, Inc. (hereinafter, "hospital”), defendant in her suit seeking damages for her pain and suffering occasioned by the hospital’s negligence in the course of her stay for the birth of her child. In support of its summary judgment motion, the hospital offered the affidavit of Dr. J. M. Giesler who first examined her on the morning of November 22, 1971. The affidavit dealt only with her condition and subsequent progress from that point through the successful birth of her child through caesarean section some hours later. In opposition to the motion, appellant offered her own affidavit detailing among other things her
Appellant’s complaint and affidavit have created issues of possible negligence by the hospital which were not dispelled by the doctor’s affidavit. Therefore, significant issues of material fact remaining to be determined, the trial court erred in granting the hospital’s summary judgment motion.
Judgment reversed.
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- BERNDT v. GEORGIA OSTEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, INC.
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