Thomas v. Board of County Commissioners

This is an appeal from a judgment on demurrer to the declaration in an action by husband and wife for injuries sustained by the wife, while a paying patient in the Prince George’s General Hospital, through alleged negligence of an anaesthetist employed by the hospital. The demurrer of the county commissioners was sustained on the ground that in operating the hos-. pital the county commissioners were performing a governmental function and are not liable for negligence in so doing. The result reached by the lower court is the same as that reached by this court, on different but related grounds,…