Opinion ID: 485940
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Heading: Statements of Nurse's Aide

Text: 11 The plaintiffs contend that the proferred testimony as to what the nurse's aide said to Marilyn's grandmother was not hearsay because it was offered to prove the reasonableness of Mrs. Ross' action in removing her daughter from the hospital. The plaintiffs make the same contention with respect to the exclusion of the aide's testimony on what she had heard about the difference of opinion between Drs. Leeds and McDonald on how best to treat Marilyn. 12 The contention fails for two reasons. First, the reasonableness of Mrs. Ross's decision to remove Marilyn from the hospital was not in issue. Mrs. Ross testified that she took her daughter out of the hospital over the objection of Dr. Leeds, but no one contended at the trial that the move was unreasonable; plaintiffs suggest, indeed, that Dr. Leeds attempted to show that he himself transferred Marilyn. 13 Second, the jury did learn, from one witness or another, that the nurse's aide told Marilyn's grandmother she would remove Marilyn from that hospital, that the grandmother repeated this to Marilyn's mother, and that Marilyn's mother removed Marilyn from the hospital as a result. That those conversations took place was never disputed.