Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1960

Yoakum v. Lawrence Hospital, Inc.

Yoakum v. Lawrence Hospital, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided October 17, 1960
11 A.D.2d 1055; 207 N.Y.S.2d 968; 1960 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7776
Yoakum v. Lawrence Hospital, Inc.

Opinion of the Court

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff in a fall from a hospital bed, caused by the alleged negligence of a nurse employed by defendant hospital, the plaintiff appeals: (1) from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester *1056County, entered December 19, 1958, on a jury’s special verdict, after trial, as dismisses the complaint against the defendant Lawrence Hospital, Inc., and against the defendant Larson, the hospital nurse, and awards costs to them; and (2) from an order of the same court, entered the same date, denying plaintiff’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial. Judgment insofar as appealed from and order affirmed, with costs. No opinion. Nolan, P. J., Ughetta, Kleinfeld, Christ and Pette, JJ., concur.

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