Canney v. Sisters of Charity

On the theory that the wife’s injuries were the proximate result of administrative negligence of defendant, plaintiffs, a marital community, brought this action to recover against defendant (a charitable corporation which operates Providence hospital as a charitable institution) for injuries claimed to have been sustained by plaintiff wife while a paying patient in defendant hospital. Plaintiffs alleged in their complaint that the injuries sustained

“. . . were the sole, direct and proximate result of the administrative negligence of the defendants, which consisted solely of the failure of…