Kojis v. Doctors Hospital

In our consideration of the action we are assuming that the defendant is a charitable hospital and operates as such. We are concerning ourselves only with the question of whether or not a charitable hospital should be exempt from liability for its own negligence or that of its agents, servants, or employees to a paying patient.

Such immunity was first recognized in Wisconsin in the case of Morrison v. Henke (1917), 165 Wis. 166, 160 N. W. 173. A defendant in that case was the La Crosse Hospital Association. The record disclosed that the hospital was an eleemosynary institution paying no…