England v. Hospital of Good Samaritan

Defendant prosecutes this appeal from an order of the trial court granting plaintiff’s motion for a new trial after a jury had returned a verdict in defendant’s favor. While plaintiff was a patient in the hospital conducted by defendant, on October 16, 1935, he was burned by hot water bottles negligently placed upon his body by a nurse in the employ of defendant and the action was commenced to recover damages for the injuries thereby caused. The action has been tried twice. After plaintiff had finished the presentation of evidence upon the first trial the court granted defendant’s motion…