Hamilton v. Corvallis General Hospital Ass'n

The two assignments of error urged on this appeal are based on the refusal of the court to grant defendant’s motions for a nonsuit and for a directed verdict. The reasons presented in support of those motions were: (1) that the defendant corporation is a charitable institution organized without stockholders and operated without profit to any one, and therefore not subject to damages for the negligence of its employees; (2) that there was insufficient evidence of negligence to entitle the case to go to the jury; and (3) that the treatment of plaintiff which occasioned the injury was by…