The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an appeal from an order of the trial court sustaining a
demurrer of the defendant, The Menninger Foundation (appellee),
to the amended petition of plaintiff, William B. Noel
(appellant), in a suit brought to recover damages for personal
injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant's
negligence. The plaintiff, William B. Noel, a man seventy-one years of age
and a mental patient of the Menninger hospital in Topeka at the
time the cause of action arose, sued jointly The Menninger
Foundation
[175 Kan. 753]
