Robertson v. Charles B. Towns Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Charles B. Towns Hospital and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 28th day of March, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury for $12,500, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Stapleton, J.:
An administratrix of a decedent recovered damages against a corporation and an individual for neglect which caused her intestate’s death. The decedent periodically was a heavy drinker of intoxicating liquor. A day came when his family physician, finding him suffering from alcoholism, advised him to go to a sanatorium for treatment. He was admitted on that day, March 11, 1915. His treatment was paid for. The person who received him and with whom the arrangements were made said good care would be given him. He was assigned to a room on the third floor, which he shared with a…
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