Fields v. Mountainside Hospital

Joseph L. Smith, C. C. J.

The defendant moves to strike the complaint and its amendments on the ground that the complaint does not allege a good and legal cause of action, for the reason that the defendant is a charitable corporation and that the plaintiff was a beneficiary of the charitable purposes of the said defendant. The plaintiff admits for the purposes of this motion that the defendant may be described as a “charitable institution.” The original complaint consists of four counts and the amendment to the complaint contains two additional counts.

The first count alleges that from April…