Court Opinion

ID: 9849431
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:40:07.93061+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:19:23.843430
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Chandler, Justice
(dissenting):
I respectfully dissent.
Our scope of review is limited to the determination of whether there is any evidence which reasonably supports the verdict. If evidence was presented which, when viewed in the light most favorable to Respondent, gives rise to more than one reasonable inference, the jury’s verdict must stand. Tallon v. Seaboard C.L.R. Co., 270 S. C. 362, 242 S. E. (2d) 418 (1978); Knight v. Autumn Co., 271 S. C. 112, 245 S. E. (2d) 602 (1978).
Evidence of negligence, however slight, was presented. The testimony of the doctor and the nurse in charge of decedent at the time of the accident clearly showed that Crafts-Farrow had an established standard operating procedure for bathing patients in geri chairs.
Evidence that this procedure was not followed on the occasion of decedent’s accident entitled the jury to a finding of negligence which contributed proximately to the head injury.
I would affirm the judgment and verdict below.
Harwell, J., concurs.