Hayhurst v. Boyd Hospital

BE,INCH, Commissioner.

Plaintiff: brings this action to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, while plaintiff was a patient at the defendant’s hospital, for treatment and care for typhoid fever, with which he was then afflicted. He alleges that after receiving treatment for typhoid fever for about three weeks, the nurse employed by defendant in his care and treatment, on September 30, 1917, set him up in a chair for the first time, and raised the window of his room, and that she negligently left him in his room, sitting up in the chair,…