Mills v. Society of New York Hospital
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtScudder, J.
Plaintiff sues to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of her intestate, Frederick L. Mills, who was killed *246on January 9,1929, while a paying patient at Bloomingdale Hospital for Mental Diseases, a subsidiary of The Society of the New York Hospital.
The complaint pleads two causes of action — one in contract and one in tort. Answering, the defendant denied the existence of any contract, or the breach thereof, and denied that negligence on its part caused Mills’ death.
As a separate defense, defendant alleged that it is and always was a charitable and beneficent corporation and that…
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