Nicholson v. Good Samaritan Hospital

The plaintiff in error, plaintiff below, brought this action against the Good Samaritan Hospital, a Florida corporation, for the recovery of damages alleged to have been sustained by his being severely burned by reason of the negligence of the nurses employed by the defendant in the care of the plaintiff. There were two counts in the declaration, the first of which, inter alia, alleged that: “. . . the defendant was in the business of conducting an infirmary and hospital for the treatment of patients requiring operations . . . and for a reasonable compensation said defendant undertook and…