Greenfield v. Hospital Ass'n

The complaint was dismissed by the Trial Term at the close of the plaintiff’s case. Plaintiff had shown that he entered the hospital of the defendant to visit a relative who was a patient there. While sitting in the patient’s room he felt a bit sick and stepped out through a pair of screen doors onto a fire escape to get some fresh air. As plaintiff stepped on it, the platform of the fire escape came loose from the side of the building and plaintiff was precipitated onto the fire escape landing of the floor below. There were no windows in the patient’s room, the only light coming through a…