Horton v. Niagara Falls Memorial Center
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Simons, J.P.
Defendant appeals from a judgment awarding compensatory and derivative damages to plaintiffs for personal injuries resulting from Willard Horton’s fall from defendant’s second-story hospital window. On the day before the fall Mr. Horton had been admitted to the hospital, suffering from a "fever of undetermined origin” (subsequently diagnosed as pneumonitis) and observed to be acutely ill, "lacking in co-ordination” and suffering from blurred vision.
He was placed in a private room which had a single window opening onto a small balcony which was encircled by a railing two to three…
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