St. Paul's Sanitarium v. Williamson

Appellee sued appellant for damages for personal injuries sustained by his wife while a patient in appellant’s sanitarium, and upon trial by jury secured verdict, followed by judgment, from which this appeal is taken.

The grounds of negligence alleged were, in substance, that appellee’s wife was operated upon successfully for a minor affliction by a physician selected by appellee, after which she was consigned to the authorities and nurses in charge of appellant’s sanitarium, where appellee had engaged a room, with proper instructions as to the care to be used in nursing her, but that those in…