Hendrickson v. Hodkin

The respondent Park East Operating Cor-

poration is a private hospital operated for profit. The question involved relates to the duty which it owed to appellant, a patient. Appellant, a truck driver, had a sore on his lower lip for which he had received treatment at various hospitals, but it continued to trouble him. He heard of the defendant Bigley, who had been a chauffeur and also sold ointments to cure skin diseases. In 1933 Rigley returned to Ireland, his native country. On his return to New York he brought back an old remedy for the cure of cancer which had been used in his family for…