Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1955

Adams v. City of New York

Adams v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided February 1, 1955
285 A.D. 868; 137 N.Y.S.2d 158; 1955 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5886
Adams v. City of New York

Opinion of the Court

Judgment appealed from unanimously reversed and new trial ordered. A jury could find on the evidence submitted that failure of the doctor and the nurse to make a note of the doctor’s direction to keep the patient for further observation and the discharge of the patient by the nurses contrary to hospital routine were administrative acts and negligence on the part of defendant. The complaint should not have been dismissed at the close of the plaintiff’s case. Settle order. Present — Peck, P. J., Cohn, Breitel and Bastow, JJ.

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