CHARLTON v. MONTEFIORE HOSP.


45 Misc.2d 153 (1965)

Lillian Charlton, Plaintiff, v. Montefiore Hospital et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court, Trial Term, Queens County.

January 15, 1965


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seymour Stern for plaintiff. Bower, O'Connor & Taylor (William F. O'Connor of counsel), for defendants.


J. IRWIN SHAPIRO, J.

This is an action, tried by the court without a jury, to recover damages for injuries sustained as a result of the alleged negligence of the defendant hospital in the removal of a pterygium over the nasal cornea of the plaintiff's left eye. (Pterygium is a triangular overgrowth of the bulbar conjunctiva from the nasal side.)

At the close of plaintiff's case the defendant moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that plaintiff...

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