Sylvester v. Northwestern Hospital of Minneapolis

Matson, Justice.

Appeal from an order denying plaintiff’s motion to vacate a directed verdict and for a new trial.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff as a result of defendant hospital’s negligence in failing to protect plaintiff from injuries caused by the violence of another patient who was intoxicated.

Taking, as we must, the view of the evidence most favorable to plaintiff, it appears that plaintiff was admitted to defendant hospital on December 13, 1948, for an appendectomy. After the operation he was placed in a six-bed ward to…