# Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital

> Illinois Supreme Court · September 29, 1965 · 33 Ill. 2d 326

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9744810

## Case

- **Full name:** Dorrence Kenneth Darling II, Appellee, vs. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital, Appellant
- **Court:** Illinois Supreme Court
- **Decided:** September 29, 1965
- **Citations:** 33 Ill. 2d 326; 211 N.E.2d 253; 14 A.L.R. 3d 860; 1965 Ill. LEXIS 250
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Underwood
- **Judges:** Schaefer, Underwood
- **Cited by:** 418 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9744810

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that hospital rules and bylaws may be admissible but do not conclusively establish the standard of care
- holding that the hospital's own bylaws may be used to establish the hospital's standard of care
- noting that a hospital's duty in negligence cases is always the same, to conform to the legal standard of reasonable conduct in light of the apparent risk
- holding that hospitals may be held liable for institutional negligence
- holding that hospitals may be held hable for institutional negligence

## Opinion text

Mr. Justice Underwood, specially concurring:
I concur in the decision in so far as it relates to the doctrine of charitable immunity only because I believe this result is compelled by Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District, 18 Ill.2d.11.

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