Case Name: WICKLANDER v. SALEM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Court: Oregon Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1963-10-09
Citations: 235 Or. 488
Docket Number: 
Parties: WICKLANDER v. SALEM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Judges: Before McAllister, Chief Justice, and Rossman, Perry, Sloan, O’Connell, Goodwin and Denecke, Justices.
Reporter: Oregon Reports
Volume: 235
Pages: 488–489

Head Matter:
Submitted September 25,
reversed and remanded October 9, 1963
WICKLANDER v. SALEM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
385 P. 2d 617
Lewelling & Gies, Salem, for appellant.
Rhoten, Rhoten & Speerstra, and Myron L. Enfield, Salem, for respondent.
Before McAllister, Chief Justice, and Rossman, Perry, Sloan, O’Connell, Goodwin and Denecke, Justices.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is an action for damages for personal injuries allegedly sustained as a result of negligence of the defendant, Salem Memorial Hospital, while plaintiff was a patient in said hospital. The hospital pleaded the defense:of charitable immunity, the court overruled a demurrer to that defense, and when plaintiff declined to plead further the court dismissed the action.
Since this court in Hungerford v. Portland Sanitarium & Benev. Assn., 235 Or 412, 384 P2d 1009 (September 5, 1963), discarded the rule of charitable immunity, this case must be and is reversed.