Roosen v. Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, with a declaration in two counts, by the administrator of the estate of Jennie Roosen for causing her death, it being alleged in the first count that the death was caused by the acts, described in the opinion, of incompetent persons negligently employed by the defendant, and the second count containing allegations that the death was caused by “the combined negligence of certain persons in” the defendant’s “pharmacy department” and of the nurse attending the plaintiff’s…
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Tort, with a declaration in two counts, by the administrator of the estate of Jennie Roosen for causing her death, it being alleged in the first count that the death was caused by the acts, described in the opinion, of incompetent persons negligently employed by the defendant, and the second count containing allegations that the death was caused by “the combined negligence of certain persons in” the defendant’s “pharmacy department” and of the nurse attending the plaintiff’s intestate. Writ dated March 21, 1919; also an action of Tort or contract, with a declaration as amended in five counts,…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
These are two actions, one to recover for the death and the other for the conscious suffering of Jennie Roosen, the plaintiff’s intestate, caused by injuries sustained by her while she was a patient in the hospital conducted by the defendant. The specific act alleged as that out of which the actions arise was careless and negligent treatment of the patient, while at the hospital for a surgical operation and the subsequent convalescence, in that corrosive sublimate, a deadly poison, was administered to her in place of Epsom salts, a harmless drug. Distinctive allegations of several counts…
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