Van Campen v. Olean General Hospital — 239 N.Y. 615

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p. 615

Benjamin Van Campen, Appellant, v. Olean General Hospital, Respondent.

Headnote

Hospitals — within power of board of directors of hospital to drop physician from visiting staff.

Van Campen v. Olean General Hospital, 210 App. Div. 204 , affirmed.

(Argued December 18, 1924;

decided January 21, 1925.)

Appeal from a judgment, entered July 26, 1924, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, reversing a judgment in. favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at an Equity Term. The action was brought to nullify the act of the board of directors of defendant, a corporation organized for the purpose of conducting a hospital, in dropping plaintiff, a physician, from the visiting medical staff.

Patrick S. Collins for appellant.

James P. Quigley and Allen J. Hastings for respondent.

p. 616

Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ. Absent: McLaughlin, J.