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CORNELIUS v. SINAI HOSPITAL

[No. 124, September Term, 1958.]

219 Md. 116 (1959)

148 A.2d 567

CORNELIUS v. SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE, INCORPORATED

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 17, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Lipsitz for appellant.

Court declined to hear argument for the appellee. William W. Cahill, Jr., Dene L. Lusby and Weinberg & Green on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ., and OPPENHEIMER, Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, specially assigned.

PER CURIAM:

In this appeal, we are requested to repudiate the doctrine that an eleemosynary corporation, namely a hospital, is not liable for injuries to a patient caused by the negligence of its physician in the course of his duties. This doctrine was adopted by this Court in Perry v. House of Refuge, 63 Md. 20 (1885), and has been reaffirmed in a long line of decisions, the last being State v. The Arundel Park...

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