People ex rel. Kammerer v. Brophy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that hospitals directly “undertake to treat the patient” because they “employ on a salary basis a large staff of physicians, nurses and internes” and “charge patients for medical care and treatment”
• concluding that hospitals directly “undertake to treat the patient” because they “employ on a salary basis a large staff of physicians, nurses and internes” and “charge patients for medical care and treatment”
• objecting that “the special skill of other employees (such as airplane pilots, locomotive engineers, chemists, to mention but a few) has never been the basis for denying the application of respondeat superior”
• objecting that “the special skill of other employees (such as airplane pilots, locomotive engineers, chemists, to mention but a few) has never been the basis for denying the application of respondeat superior”
• describing historical view of courts that physicians, due to the nature of their professional expertise, were not subject to hospital's right of control
• describing historical view of courts that physicians, due to the nature of their professional expertise, were not subject to hospital’s right of control

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).