SLOAN v. Edgewood Sanatorium, Inc.

Stukes, Justice.

In this action for damages for wrongful death, which was brought for the benefit of the widow and two young children of the deceased, the jury returned verdict of $25,000.00 for plaintiffs, who are now respondents. The defendant, now appellant, operated a private hospital for profit for the treatment of nervous and mental diseases, to which the deceased was first admitted as a patient on April 5, 1949, received electro-shock treatments and was dismissed, against the advice of the hospital authorities, on April 10, 1949. On the following April 27th he was again admitted as a…