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Title: Memorial Hospital Inc. v. Oakes
Author : Virginia Supreme Court
Release Date : January 04, 1959
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 65 KB

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Harmon Washington Oakes, Sr., a patient in The Memorial Hospital, Incorporated, of Danville, was being administered oxygen while he was incased in an oxygen tent when he and the tent caught fire. Oakes received third degree burns and he died the next day. Dora H. Oakes, Administratrix, instituted action for damages under the death by wrongful act statute (Â§ 8-633 et seq. Code 1950) against the hospital on November 5, 1957. A jury verdict of $12,500 was returned. Defendants motion to set aside the verdict was overruled and judgment was entered on the verdict. We granted defendant an appeal.