# Flagiello v. Pennsylvania Hospital

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · March 22, 1965 · 417 Pa. 486

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9749961

## Case

- **Full name:** Flagiello, Appellant, v. Pennsylvania Hospital
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** March 22, 1965
- **Citations:** 417 Pa. 486; 208 A.2d 193; 1965 Pa. LEXIS 442
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Cohen
- **Judges:** Bell, Musmanno, Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts
- **Cited by:** 130 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating when rule offends against reason, courts not only possess inherent authority to repudiate rule, but are required to do so
- discussing the growth of the charitable immunity doctrine in the United States

## Opinion text

Concurring Opinion by
Mr. Justice Cohen :
In Parker v. Port Huron Hospital, 361 Mich. 1 , 105 N.W. 2d 1 (1960), relying mainly upon the analysis of Judge Rutledge in President and Directors of Georgetown College v. Hughes, 130 F. 2d 810 (D.C. 1942), Michigan abandoned the judicial rules which would prohibit the instant suit against defendant hospital. I find it unnecessary to say, cite, or do more than was said, cited, or done in Parker . Accordingly, I concur in the result reached by the majority.

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