New York Supreme Court January 15, 1965 (Charlton v. Montefiore Hospital)

J. Irwin Shapiro, J.

This is an action, tried by the court without a jury, to recover damages for injuries sustained as a result of the alleged negligence of the defendant hospital in the removal of a pterygium over the nasal cornea of the plaintiff’s left eye. (Pterygium is a triangular overgrowth of the bulbar conjunctiva from the nasal side.