Roberts v. Ohio Valley General Hospital

HatcheR, Jodge:

The plaintiff filed a declaration in the circuit court of Ohio county for damages, alleging an injury to her from the negligent and unskillful treatment of one of defendant’s nurses, while she, plaintiff, was at defendant’s hospital as a paying patient.

The defendant filed a special plea, in the words and figures following:

“The defendant says that it is incorporated as a non-stock association under chapter 55 of the Code of West Virginia for the purpose of conducting a hospital without profit to its members or to other persons; that by reason of its charitable work it has at all…