CADICAMO v. LONG IS. COLL. HOSP.


308 N.Y. 196 (1954)

Thomas Cadicamo, as Administrator of The Estate of Maria E. Cadicamo, Deceased, Appellant, v. Long Island College Hospital, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 31, 1954


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin H. Siff and Harold J. Levy for appellant.

Harold Schaffner, Reginald V. Spell and Joseph L. Schilling for respondent.

LEWIS, Ch. J., CONWAY, DESMOND, DYE, FULD and VAN VOORHIS, JJ., concur.


FROESSEL, J.

Plaintiff's intestate, a baby less than one day old, was burned to death in her bassinet in the nursery ward of defendant's hospital under circumstances hereinafter related. Her father sues here, as administrator, for her conscious pain and suffering and for wrongful death.

The baby was born in the hospital at about 11:25 P.M. on February 21, 1948. The obstetrician gave no special instructions...

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