Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-07-23
THE HOSPITAL CASE
WANT THE INJUNCTION
MODIFIED.
Board of Managers File Petition
For This Purpose-Claim
Hospital Board Has
No Governing
Power.

The following petition for the modih
cation Of the injunction heretofore grant
ed in the Emergency Hospital case wa:
filed today on behalf OF the Board Of
Managers by their solicitors in the Circuit
Court Tor Anne Arunnel county:
ITO the Honorable, the Judges OF said
Court-The petition OF Anna l.. CTesap,
Phoebe E. Martin, Emma IS. Field
never, Lulu o. Merrill and Katherine
Emory, respondents In this case. respect
fully shows
"Tha. upon bill OF complaint filed in
this case asking for an injunction against
these respondents and others, the Board
OF Managers OF the Emergency Hospital
of Annapolis, alleging that these re-
spondents and others OF the said mana
gers were interfering with the Medical
Staff and preventing the access OF certain
Robert Moss to the said Hospital for the
purpose Of communicating with certain
of his clients, TO wit, DIR. w. c. Claude,
Chief OF Medical Staff; Miss Nellie M.
Pusey, former superintendent OF the said
hospital, and certain Isabella Thomas,
mother OF a patient In said hospital
Agnes Thomas. and also from interfering
with the said Agnes, this Honorable
Court has granted an injunction restrain
ing these respondents and others the
said Managers from interfering in any
manner whatever with certain Nellie M.
Pusey, former superintendent OF the said
hospital and the trained nurses under her,
which said Nellie NJ. Pusey is not parry
TO this proceeding and which said trained
nurses are the employees OF these re-
spondents, and that thereby these re-
spondents and the other managers are
wholly prevented from in any wise dis
charging their duties in the matter OF
con.lo Over their employees at the said
hospital. not only in reference to the
matter alleged in the said bill of CON-
plant, but in any matters whatever.
These respondents show that they have
no desire whatever to interfere with the
| Medical Staff in the discharge OF their
proper function, that they do not in any
wise recognize said Nellie M. Pusey as
superintendent of the said hospital. she
having been discharged from their en-
ploy, to take effect on the I4th day OF
July, 1908; that they do not desire to in
terlere with the access of the said Robert
Moss to the said hospital Tor the purpose
aforesaid; that they do not desire to in
teriere with the said Isabella Thomas
and her child. the said Agnes. patient
in the said hospital, but that they do
desire in all other respects to exercise
their legitimate functions as the controll-
ing Board OF Managers of said hospital.
and that without the power so TO do the
said hospital is without any managing
board and that great harm may happen
by virtue OF the care OF the hospital
being committed to utter irresponsible
hands having no authority in the premises.
Your petitioners, therefore. pray your
Honors to modify said injunction by pro-
viding that the said injunction shall re-
main in force for the purposes aforesaid.
to wit, tor the purpose of restraining
these respondents from interfering with
the said Medical Staff and with the said
Robert Moss and with the said Isabella
Thomas and Agnes Thomas as prayed
in the said bill OF complaint until the
matter can be finally heard and disposed
Of by this Court, and that in all other
respects the said injunction be modified
and these respondents be left free to exer-
else all their legitimate functions not con-
Aicting with matters hereintofore stated.