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I-i.hit Clayton MeOllan, one of theit' witnesses who was present at the hospital, telling the night nurse that the Janitor was a friend and had offered to sit with the girl.He argued that Mrs. Oaldaeh-er was not negligent under the definition that negligence was not using ordinary care. In this ,11 respect he pointed out that the r patient who had told her she wasj 0! afraid of the man was in the ,j hospital under a diagnosis nt j j psv■('honeurosis. and that t he nurse had disregarded her warn ing a brought on hv her special condition. She had no reason, he maintained, to suspect that the !' janitor, who had a three yean record of dependable conduct at the hospital, would so conduct himself.Had the woman patient told the nurse exactly what the man had been doing in assaulting the •el plaintiff. Pfiffner went on, the lt;1 situation would have been entire lejly different. Pfiffner further ie pointed out that the attending physicians had not ordered that o the patient be watched, and •i ■ that, therefore, there was no s. reason for the nurse to authorp-»fhPH)e:eh|
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Daily Telegram
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jun 22, 1955
Page 11
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