Sessions v. Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital Ass'n.

I dissent. My understanding of the majority decision is that the defendant hospital is held liable for any negligence of its nurses where the injured patient is a so-called paying patient, irrespective of the character of the institution, whether a charitable or eleemosynary hospital or one operated for profit. Stated in another way, that no charitable institution is immune from liability for negligence of its servants where the person injured by such negligence has paid or contracted to pay for the hospital services. If this be the correct analysis of the decision, then it is wholly…