WILLS v. EMORY UNIVERSITY

36389.

94 Ga. App. 734 (1956)

96 S.E.2d 220

WILLS, Administrator v. EMORY UNIVERSITY.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied December 4, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dudley Cook, Cullen Ward, for plaintiff in error.

Thomas B. Branch, Jr., James A. Branch, contra.


CARLISLE, J.

1. "A private hospital in which patients are placed for treatment by their physicians and which undertakes to care for the patients and supervise and look after them, is under the duty to exercise such reasonable care in looking after and protecting a patient as the patient's condition, which is known to the hospital through its agents and servants charged with the duty of looking after and supervising the patient, may require. This duty extends to safeguarding...

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