· 7/2/1962
D'Antoni v. Sara Mayo Hospital
Citations
- 144 So. 2d 643
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that the act of raising a rail on a patient’s hospital bed was not a professional service because it was “purely a mechanical act which any unskilled person could perform”
- accident resulting from failure to raise side rails on hospital bed held covered by Aetna owners’, landlords’ and tenants’ policy
- negligent failure to raise hospital bed rails not a professional service
- fall from bed caused by lack of siderails
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Judges: Regan, Samuel and Hall
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