Sanitarium v. Jacobson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox County; the Hon. George W. Thompson, Judge presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1902.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibell
Appellant is a corporation which conducts a hospital. Appellee was a patient therein for some two months. He alleges he ivas assaulted, beaten, mistreated and injured by the servants and employes of appellant, and brought this suit to recover damages therefor. To an appropriate declaration appellant pleaded not guilty. Appellee recovered a verdict and a judgment for §100 from which the sanitarium prosecutes this appeal.
Appellee was a section hand, and became violently insane at his boarding house, and was removed to the county jail by officers, after a struggle with him. He was afterward…
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