Roewekamp v. New York Post-Graduate Medical School & Hospital

Defendant, a charitable institution, maintains a hospital and post-graduate school. Plaintiff, a charity patient in defendant’s hospital, sues to recover damages for injuries, alleging that defendant permitted an incompetent doctor to operate upon her and that defendant knew or should have known of his incompetency. On a prior appeal we held that the action is governed by the three-year Statute of Limitations (Civ. Prac. Act, § 49), *958applicable to negligence actions generally. (Roewekamp v. New York Post-Graduate Medical School & Hospital, 254 App. Div. 265.) The jury rendered a verdict in…