Flower Hospital v. Hart

The plaintiff, Hart, seeks recovery for an injury received at defendant, Flower Hospital. Plaintiff was a paid in full inmate. One of the nurses, in the presence of two others who were furnished by the hospital, laid a light globe on the forearm and breast of the plaintiff while she was unconscious shortly after an operation and on the verge of death from heart failure, and while the only doctor present, Dr. Summers, was occupied in preparing or giving an emergency injection. Dr. Summers is not shown to be the employee of either party at the time.

The controversy is over the location of the…