Rural Education Ass'n v. Anderson

This is an action for negligently causing the death of plaintiff’s husband, M. V. Anderson. He was seriously ill and suffering from mental derangement. He was brought to defendant’s hospital, accepted as a patient for hire and put on a bed near a window on the second floor. A few hours later he fell or jumped out this window and received injuries from which he later died.

The negligence charged was that defendant knew he was deranged and, if not watched, might get out of bed and harm himself; that it undertook to furnish him the care and attention proper to his condition and required for his…