Quinones v. St. Vincent's Hospital

Order, entered on March 11, 1963, reversed on the law, with $20 costs and disbursements to appellant, and its motion, made at the close of the entire case, to dismiss the complaint, granted, with $10 costs, and judgment directed for defendant, with costs. Resting upon the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, the plaintiff was bound to establish that the claimed traumatic fractures of cervical vertebrae in her neck were sustained in the period during Which she was undergoing the unrelated operation in the defendant hospital or while she was recovering from the effects of the anesthetic then…