Ward v. St. Vincent's Hospital

On the 20th day of February, 1894, the plaintiff entered the institution maintained by the defendant as a public charitable institution (Laws of 1848, chap. 319), on Eleventh and Twelfth streets, in the city of Hew York. On the afternoon of the following day she was put under the influence of ether for the performance of a “ slight ” operation by Dr., Lusk, who was her own private physician, as well as a visiting surgeon on defendant’s staff. The operation was successfully performed, and plaintiff, while still under the influence of the anesthetic, was carried to her room and there placed in…