520 N.E.2d 139 STARR COPITHORNE vs. FRAMINGHAM UNION HOSPITAL. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Middlesex.November 4, 1987. March 14, 1988. Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, LYNCH O’CONNOR, JJ. Negligence, Hospital. Proximate Cause. For the purposes of considering a motion for summary judgment in a civil action, the judge properly assumed that the defendant hospital […]