Mayor of Baltimore v. Smith

The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, a municipal corporation, owns and operates the Baltimore City Hospital, a public charity for the sick. Florence Smith, a practical nurse, was there employed for a reward. While engaged on January 10th, 1932, in putting clean linen on the bed of a patient, she scratched her left hand on a spring of the mattress. The finger became infected from the injury, and she had a painful period of total disability that extended from the happening of the accident to May 23rd, 1932. The treatment required multiple incisions of her hand, and the amputation of the…