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HUGHES v. PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS, ETC.

No. 88895.

33 F.Supp. 867 (1940)

HUGHES v. PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS OF GEORGETOWN COLLEGE.

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

June 4, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emmett L. Sheehan and Maurice H. Lanman, Jr., both of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Henry I. Quinn, of Washington, D. C., for defendant.

PROCTOR, Justice.

The plaintiff, Susan M. Hughes, was seriously and permanently injured in Georgetown University Hospital while about her duties as a nurse specially employed by a paying patient. A jury by special verdict found the injury to have resulted from negligence of a student nurse in the regular employ of the hospital. The defendant corporation is an eleemosynary institution. The hospital is one of the charitable activities conducted by it. An insurance policy...

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