Miller v. Delaware County Memorial Hospital

428 Pa. 504 (1968)

Miller, Appellant,

v.

Delaware County Memorial Hospital.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued January 10, 1968.

March 15, 1968.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

David Freeman, for appellant.

John S.J. Brooks, for appellee.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, March 15, 1968:

Plaintiff, an eighty-three-year-old woman, instituted an action in trespass against Delaware County Memorial Hospital seeking to recover damages for injuries sustained when she fell out of her bed. Plaintiff was admitted to defendant hospital January 5, 1964, suffering from…