Collins v. New York Post Graduate Medical School & Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Nicholas Collins, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 13th day of December, 1899, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial before the court and a jury at the Kings County Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
The action is for damages resulting from alleged negligence. The complaint charges that on or about June 3, 1898, the plaintiff applied to the defendant for admission into its hospital for treatment and was accepted for that purpose, he then suffering from a disease and injury necessitating an operation as for an indirect inguinal hernia upon the left side of his body; that on the following day the defendant, by its physicians, surgeons, agents and servants and other persons, performed an operation upon plaintiff as for an indirect inguinal hernia upon the right side of his…
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