Sylvester v. Northwestern Hospital of Minneapolis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a hospital is liable for damages suffered by one of its patients when another patient assaults her because the reasonable care to be exercised by a hospital \must always be in proportion to the patient's inability to look after his own safety\
• holding that a hospital is liable for damages suffered by one of its patients when another patient assaults her because the reasonable care to be exercised by a hospital “must always be in proportion to the patient’s inability to look after his own safety”
• stating that knowledge that patient had habit of wandering on hospital grounds while intoxicated sufficient to find hospital liable for assault of another patient, in light of \experience of mankind\ that intoxication causes people to become a hazard to others
• stating that knowledge that patient had habit of wandering on hospital grounds while intoxicated sufficient to find hospital liable for assault of another patient, in light of “experience of mankind” that intoxication causes people to become a hazard to others
• finding hospital liable for patient being injured by violence of another intoxicated patient
• “The seriousness and the frequency of the harm that an intoxicated person is likely to cause third persons has become so well recognized.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).