Margaret C. Hill v. James Walker Memorial Hospital and Orkin Exterminating Company

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

In this diversity action for personal injuries, Margaret C. Hill, plaintiff below, appeals from the District Court’s order granting defendants’ motions for summary judgment. Her complaint alleged that on June 6, 1964, while a paying patient of the defendant James Walker Memorial Hospital, she was frightened when a rat ran across her feet and caused her to fall into a bathtub. Her resultant injuries are alleged to have been proximately caused by the defendant hospital’s negligence “in allowing the presence of rats on its premises” and the defendant Orkin Exterminating…