Volk v. City of New York

This is an action for personal injuries. The plaintiff is a registered nurse employed under a contract by which she was paid ninety dollars per month with board, maintenance and proper medical and surgical 'attention. She became ill in August after partaking of food while on duty and entered the muses’ infirmary which occupied some rooms on one of the hospital floors. In order to stop plaintiff’s vomiting, which had continued for nearly twenty-four hours, injections of magendie, a morphine solution, were there prescribed and administered.

There was used a decomposed and dangerous solution of…