D'Amato v. Orange Memorial Hospital

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Walker, Chancellor.

This was a suit in the Supreme Court by husband and wife for injuries sustained by the wife, with the usual consequential damages to the husband. Mrs. D’Amato being a patient at the Orange Memorial Hospital on or about January 22d, 1919, received an injury there under the following circumstances: Being in a wheel chair, recovering from an operation, the nurse in charge attempted to remove Mrs. D’Amato from the chair and place her in bed, and, while the transfer from chair to bed was going on, the patient fell out of the chair and…