McLeod v. St. Thomas Hospital

Mr. Special Justice Davis

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit for damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff alleging that on leaving the defendant hospital, after a visit to her husband, who was a patient therein, she fell and fractured her left wrist and hip. It is alleged that the cause of the fall and injury was a floor of white tile construction, and that it was wet and slippery by reason of its construction, and that some foreign substance was on the floor. . The declaration fairly alleges such condition of the floor to have been the result of the acts of the defendant…