Baptist Memorial Hospital v. Couillens

This is an action to recover damages by a pay patient in the Hospital for injurious burns received as the result of alleged neglect of attendants, selected with reasonable care, in applying a hot pad. From a judgment for $1,000 the Hospital appealed. The Court of Appeals affirmed, with the modification, however, that no property held in trust and being used for charitable purposes might be subjected to satisfaction of the judgment, but without determining whether or not the defendant corporation had funds or property free from the immunity declared by its decree. This Court has granted…