Minogue v. Rutland Hospital, Inc.

This is a tort action for damages resulting from injuries claimed to have been received by reason of alleged negligence of a registered nurse employed by the defendant, while the plaintiff was a patient in the defendant’s hospital. Trial was by jury with a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The case is here on exceptions of the defendant to the refusal of the trial court to grant its motion for a directed verdict. The first ground of the motion is that on the evidence, the nurse at the time of the injury was the servant and agent of the plaintiff’s doctor, even though in the general…