Presbyterian Hospital v. Ingraham

Memorandum. Determinations affirmed, with costs, on the opinion of Mr. Justice Myles J. Lane at the Appellate Division in the first-entitled proceeding with the following added comments.

Neither the voluntary hospitals nor the Associated Hospital Service (AHS) fall into the usual categories of regulated private enterprises or regulated public utilities. They are quasi-public corporations emburdened with public responsibilities offset by governmentally granted privileges and tax exemptions. Theoretically, it could be argued, and legally sustained, that the voluntary hospitals are entitled to…