Hignite's Administratrix v. Louisville Neuropathic Sanitorium

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Reversing.

Appellee Louisville Neuropathic Sanitorium is a corporation engaged in business for gain, and as its name indicates, it maintains a hospital or sanitorium where nervous and mental diseases are treated. Appellee W. E. Render is a doctor of medicine and is the chief medical officer of the corporation. The latter part of May or the first of June, 1925, M. Gr. Hignite suffered a nervous breakdown, and his family physician recommended that he be taken to appellee sanitorium and put under the care and treatment of Dr. Render. Looking to that…