Inderbitzen

This is an appeal by plaintiffs, husband and wife, from an order of the trial court granting a nonsuit at the close of plaintiffs’ evidence. The action was one for damages for alleged tortious treatment of the appellant wife in connection with her delivery of a child in a hospital alleged to have been operated by respondents. The evidence shows that Mrs. Inderbitzen was received into the hospital for the purpose of receiving the hospital and medical attention necessary in the delivery of a child ; that she was shown into a room where she was undressed and examined by a young man whom she took to be a medical student and upon her demanding a doctor the young man left the room and returned with an older man who subjected her to a rectal and vaginal examination after taking his hands from his pockets and without washing or sterilizing them; that she was then subjected to a similar examination by the younger man, also without sterilizing his hands; that she was taken to the delivery room where ■she was examined intimately two or three times each by at least ten or twelve young men whom she took to be students; that several of these persons rolled her over and poked and prodded about…