Franklin v. Collins Chapel Connectional Hospital

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• holding res ipsa loquitur to apply in a wrongful death claim against the defendant nursing home
• holding res ipsa loquitur to apply in a wrongful death claim against the defendant nursing home
• determining that suit claiming that decedent was scalded while being bathed by nursing home orderly should be adjudicated pursuant to common law negligence principles
• thermal burns suffered, presumably from scalding bath water, while the patient was in the care of a nursing home
• ordinary negligence where a patient was scalded during bathing

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