Volk v. City of New York

Plaintiff, a registered nurse employed in Bellevue Hospital in the city of New York, sues defendant as owner and operator of the hospital for defendant’s alleged negligence in having available for use in the nurses’ infirmary at the hospital a decomposed and deteriorated solution of morphine which, plaintiff claims, when injected by other nurses into plaintiff’s left arm, caused an infection as a result of which her arm is permanently useless.

The complaint, alleges that in January, 1932, plaintiff made a contract with Bellevue Hospital to enter the hospital’s employ at a salary of ninety…