Case Name: Emma COLEMAN, Appellant, v. MERCY HOSPITAL, INC., Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1979-07-24
Citations: 373 So. 2d 91
Docket Number: No. 79-254
Parties: Emma COLEMAN, Appellant, v. MERCY HOSPITAL, INC., Appellee.
Judges: Before PEARSON, HENDRY and HUB-BART, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 373
Pages: 91–91

Head Matter:
Emma COLEMAN, Appellant, v. MERCY HOSPITAL, INC., Appellee.
No. 79-254.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
July 24, 1979.
Rosenkrantz & O’Connor and Stuart H. Abramson, Miami Beach, for appellant.
Peters, Pickle, Flynn, Niemoeller, Stieglitz & Hart, Jeanne Heyward, Miami, for appellee.
Before PEARSON, HENDRY and HUB-BART, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The question presented on this appeal is whether defendant Mercy Hospital, Inc., on a motion for summary final judgment, carried its burden of showing conclusively that a genuine issue of material fact did not exist. See Holl v. Talcott, 191 So.2d 40 (Fla.1966).
The plaintiff, Emma Coleman, a nurse assigned to a senile patient, maintains on this appeal that an issue existed concerning the hospital's duty to warn her that the patient might be violent. The uncontro-verted facts demonstrated that the hospital had no knowledge of a propensity for violence and that the prior history of the patient was not such as to put the hospital on notice that such a condition might exist. Cf. Nance v. James Archer Smith Hospital, Inc., 329 So.2d 377 (Fla. 3d DCA 1976); and see Stake v. Woman's Division of Christian Service, 73 N.M. 303, 387 P.2d 871 (1963).
Affirmed.