McInerny v. St. Luke's Hospital Ass'n
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $15,000 for personal injury received while in the employ of defendant. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $15,000 for personal injury received while in the employ of defendant. The facts are stated in the opinion. The answer set out in full articles 1 and 2 of the articles of incorporation of defendant, alleged it was a purely charitable corporation sustained in whole by contributions made by charitably inclined persons for carrying out the purposes set forth in the articles; that it never had any property other than contributed for such purposes; that the hospital, owned and operated by defendant, had at all times been open for the…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, C. J.
Defendant is a corporation organized in the year 1883, under the provisions of title 3, chapter 34, G. S. 1878; now section 3102, et seq. R. L. 1905. The articles of association declare that the general purpose of the corporation “is to establish and maintain at Duluth, Minnesota, a hospital which shall be free to persons needing care and medical or surgical treatment and who are indigent and have no means with which to pay for such care and treatment, and also to furnish care at reasonable rates to such as desire it and are able to pay for the same; the association to be purely eleemosynary;…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Downes v. Harper HospitalMichigan Supreme Court · 1894
- Benton v. Trustees of the City HospitalMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- Bruce v. Central Methodist Episcopal ChurchMichigan Supreme Court · 1907
- Hordern v. . Salvation ArmyNew York Court of Appeals · 1910
- Maia's Adm'r v. Eastern State HospitalSupreme Court of Virginia · 1899
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- Foster v. Roman Catholic DioceseSupreme Court of Vermont · 1950
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