Durant v. Grace-New Haven Community Hospital

This is an action claiming damages for injuries suffered by the plaintiff, while a patient in the defendant’s hospital, as a result of a fall sustained while the plaintiff was attempting to get out of his hospital bed to go to the bathroom. The bed is claimed to have been known by the defendant to have been defective in that the wheels would not lock. Negligence is not alleged in the complaint and it is somewhat difficult to ascertain, with any degree of certainty, what cause of action the draftsman of the complaint had in mind. In the demurrer he states that the complaint alleges (1) a cause…