Howe v. Medical Arts Center Hospital

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff who, while a patient in defendant’s hospital, was burned about the thighs through the negligent application of hot water bags by an undergraduate nurse, plaintiff recovered judgment in the sum of $12,679.11. Judgment reversed on the facts and a new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide the event, unless within ten days from the entry of the order hereon plaintiff stipulate to reduce to $7,500 the amount of the verdict rendered in bis favor; in which event the judgment, as so reduced, is unanimously…