Court Opinion

ID: 9680521
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:32:52.505397+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:28.986740
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
A courteous petition to rehear has been filed by counsel for plaintiff. First, it is insisted a jury question exists as to whether the action of the defendant in countermanding certain of the hospital’s instructions constituted a proximate cause of plaintiff’s injuries. We held no jury question existed on that issue and adhere to that *713holding. Second, it is suggested that on remand the plaintiff should be able to again proceed against the defendant upon all theories of liability and not be limited as required by our opinion. This seems a rather novel suggestion to us and to acquiesce in it would place this Court and the Trial Court in a most peculiar posture. This case was never submitted to a jury. The matter was determined by the Trial Judge as a matter of law after plaintiff's proof was presented. We have held that, in part, the Trial Judge was correct as a matter of law in dismissing any claim based on some of the theories of the plaintiff. On those issues which we have determined the Trial Judge acted correctly in dismissing, the plaintiff wants a retrial. We know of no law or logic that would support our instruction to the Trial Judge to retry the issues in which he committed no error in dismissing and which action we affirmed.
Accordingly, the Petition to Rehear is denied.