Van Ingen v. Jewish Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 16th day of April, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,000, rendered by direction of the court after certain specific questions of fact had been submitted to the jury.
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Appeal by the defendant, The Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 16th day of April, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,000, rendered by direction of the court after certain specific questions of fact had been submitted to the jury. Defendant also appeals from an order entered in said clerk’s office on. the 14th day of April, 1917, denying its motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, P. J.:
The action is brought for the negligent driving of a motor car ambulance that came into collision with a motor car wherein the plaintiff was a passenger. The defendant con*12tends that, irrespective of negligence, it is not liable. It gave proof that it was an incorporated hospital for treatment of the sick; that it paid none of its officers or directors, but it paid its attendants, orderlies and servants; that it is supported by voluntary contributions, by endowment, by specific gifts, by appropriation from the city of New York and by money from those patients who pay for the…
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