MUSKOPF v. CORNING HOSPITAL DIST.

Docket No. Sac. 7229.

55 Cal.2d 211 (1961)

359 P.2d 457

11 Cal. Rptr. 89

LOUISA C. MUSKOPF et al., Appellants, v. CORNING HOSPITAL DISTRICT, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 27, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P.M. Barceloux, Burton J. Goldstein, Goldstein, Barceloux & Goldstein and Reginald M. Watt for Appellants.

Glenn D. Newton and William W. Coshow for Respondent.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, Charles A. Barrett, Assistant Attorney General, and Frederick G. Girard, Deputy Attorney General, Dion R. Holm, City Attorney (San Francisco), William F. Bourne and Beatrice Challiss, Deputy City Attorneys, Jennings, Engstrand & Henrikson and Paul D. Engstrand, Jr., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondent.


TRAYNOR, J.

Plaintiff Louisa C. Muskopf was a paying patient in the Corning Memorial Hospital. She and her husband allege that because of the negligence of the hospital staff she fell and further injured the broken hip for which she was being treated. Defendant demurred on the ground that the Corning Hospital District is immune from liability for tort under the rule of Talley v. Northern San Diego County Hospital District, 41 Cal.2d...

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