Forrest v. Red Cross Hospital, Inc.

SIMS, Chief Justice.

Clara Forrest, while a paying patient in the Red Cross Hospital for colored people in Louisville, allegedly became ill from eating food served her by employees of the, institution. She brought this action seeking damages in the sum of $2,550. Her petition avers. the food she ate “was represented to be good, wholesome and fit for human consumption, when in fact it contained a foreign substance and was not fit for human consumption as warranted by defendant”. The answer, after denying the material averments of the petition, in a third paragraph pleaded the hospital “is a…