Hodge v. OSTEOPATHIC GENERAL HOSP. OF RHODE ISLAND

The plaintiffs, husband and wife, commenced this civil action by a complaint filed in 1967 against the defendant hospital and two doctors for injuries allegedly suffered as a result of defendants’ negligence in administering spinal anesthesia to the wife during childbirth and for consequential damages to the husband. 1 This proceeding involves only plaintiffs’ action against the hospital. The hospital filed an answer to the complaint containing three defenses. In the third defense it stated that at the time of the alleged incident in 1966 it was a hospital corporation incorporated by an act…