Gable v. Sisters of St. Francis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jan. T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., June T., 1905, No. 2,784, on verdict for plaintiffs in case of John F. Gable and Mollie Gable v. Sisters'of • St. Francis of Philadelphia. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Brégy, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. At the trial the jury returned a verdict for $6,000 for plaintiff, Mollie Gable, and $350 for her father, John F. Gable.
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Jan. T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., June T., 1905, No. 2,784, on verdict for plaintiffs in case of John F. Gable and Mollie Gable v. Sisters'of • St. Francis of Philadelphia. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Brégy, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. At the trial the jury returned a verdict for $6,000 for plaintiff, Mollie Gable, and $350 for her father, John F. Gable. Judgment was entered for Mollie Gable for $3,650, all above that sum having been remitted, and judgment was entered for John F. Gable for $350.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
February 21, 1910:
The plaintiff, Mollie Gable, a young woman nearing her .majority, with a view to having a surgical operation performed on her person by a surgeon of her own selection, was admitted as a pay patient into the hospital of the defendant corporation. While undergoing the operation one of the hospital nurses prepared the bed in the patient’s room for occupancy upon her return from the operating room, and in order to warm it so that the patient’s normal temperature of body might be maintained she placed in the bed bottles or jars containing hot water.…
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