Executive Committee of Baptist Convention v. Smith

This case is before this court for the third time. A brief synopsis of the former proceedings is essential to a clear understanding of the issue now involved. On May 29, 1926, Mrs. Smith filed a suit for damages against the Georgia Baptist Hospital, alleged to be a corporation. She alleged and proved to the satisfaction of the jury that while she was a pay patient at the Georgia Baptist Hospital, and while undergoing an operation there and while lying unconscious and helpless, she was seriously burned and permanently injured (the sight of one eye being practically destroyed and the other very…