St. Mary's Hospital v. Scanlon

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

This is a personal injury action in which appellee as plaintiff below recovered judgment for $6,500 on account of injuries sustained by her in falling from a second story window of a room in the maids’ home maintained as an adjunct of appellant’s hospital.

We shall refer to the parties as they appeared in the lower court.

The negligence relied upon is (1) that defendant negligently discharged plaintiff as a patient from its hospital when she was sick and in a condition requiring care; and (2) that it negligently caused her to remain in room No. 3 in the maids’ home…