Pierce v. Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Ass'n

(dissenting) — For sixty years this court has consistently followed the policy of encouraging the operations of charitable, nonprofit corporations by limiting their liability for negligence to their patrons to situations where they had direct control over the instrumentality which caused the injury.- In other words, they have been held liable only for administrative negligence and for negligence in the selection or retention of incompetent employees.

This court on five separate occasions during the past thirty years has consistently refused to change its policy of holding that such…