Paterlini v. Memorial Hospital Ass'n of Monongahela City
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania; W. H. Seward Thomson, Judge. Action by John Paterlini and Mary Paterlini, citizens and subjects of the kingdom of Italy, against the Memorial Hospital Association of Monogahela City, Pa., a corporation, and Joseph A. Herron and others, citizens of Pennsylvania. There was a judgment for defeud1ants (241 Fed. 429), and plaintiffs bring errof.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
This suit was brought against an incorporated hospital and against its directors individually, by the parents of a boy who died while a patient in such hospital, to recover *640damages for negligence alleged to have caused his death. The Jurisdiction of the court is based on diversity of citizenship, the plaintiffs being citizens of Italy, and the defendants citizens of Pennsylvania. The court below sustained a demurrer and dismissed the suit. On writ of error this court (see 232 Fed. 359, 146 C. C. A. 407) reversed the case; the coúrt saying: ,
“In view of the…
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