Beard v. City & County of San Francisco

Plaintiff sued for damages on a complaint alleging that he had placed his fifteen months old son in the city and county hospital for hospitalization and medical care as a paying patient, that the hospital was operated by the city and county of San Francisco in its proprietary capacity, that, because of defendants’ negligent lack of supervision, the child fell from its crib causing his death. A general demurrer to the complaint was sustained without leave to amend.

The appeal presents the single issue whether the operation of the hospital under the charter of the consolidated city and county is…