Duncan v. Steeper

In Kojis v. Doctors Hospital (1961), 12 Wis. (2d) 367, 107 N. W. (2d) 131, 107 N. W. (2d) 292, this court abolished prospectively, effective January 10, 1961, the defense of charitable immunity in cases where a paying patient is seeking recovery from a charitable hospital for the negligent acts of the hospital, its agents, or employees. Prior to this decision, the defense of charitable immunity would have been a bar to recovery in such cases. Morrison v. Henke (1917), 165 Wis. 166, 160 N. W. 173. The instant plaintiff was a paying patient of defendant Methodist Hospital at the time he…