Barrett v. City of Brunswick

In the present case where the plaintiff brought suit against the City of Brunswick for damages on account of injuries alleged to have been sustained while a pay patient in a hospital maintained by the defendant, it being alleged that the defendant’s servant, a nurse, negligently left the plaintiff alone an unreasonable length of time in a room in the hospital with her left hand in a splint, bandaged and exposed to the rays of a nearby infra-red lamp for the purpose of receiving treatment for arthritis, in consequence of which, it was alleged, the gauze bandage became ignited and severely…