New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

D. B. Moore, an elderly gentleman of the age of about eighty-four years, suffered a fracture of his hip and was confined to a hospital in the city of Tulare for a considerable time. During the early part of his confinement there he was cared for by graduate and registered trained nurses. For the latter part of his stay he was attended by Miss Katherine Stacy, who was not a graduate and registered nurse, but came within the classification of practical nurse. It was not questioned that her long experience had qualified her to perform all of the duties of a graduate and registered nurse. "While…