Dillon v. Rockaway Beach Hospital & Dispensary

This is an action by a paying patient against a charitable hospital to recover for injuries sustained as a result of the negligence of the latter’s servants. At the close of the plaintiff’s case the complaint was dismissed without prejudice. It is necessary, therefore, to consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.

Plaintiff was admitted to the hospital on November 27,1936, at eight a. m., preparatory to undergoing an operation. At about five-thirty p. m., a hospital attendant brought in an electric light lamp having a reflector which was hung on top of the bedstead at…