Legal Opinion
Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses & Missionaries v. Perotti
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 10, 1969No. 21902PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAZELON, Chief Judge:
Early on a Sunday morning in January 1964, William L. Perotti plunged from the seventh floor of the Sibley Memorial Hospital, which he had entered the afternoon before as a psychiatric patient. Despite emergency treatment, he died later that morning. His widow, as the administratrix of his estate, obtained a jury verdict for $60,000 against the appellant corporation, which operates the hospital, under the District of Columbia wrongful death statute, 16 D.C.Code §§ 2701-03 (1967).
The hospital argues that there was not sufficient evidence of negligence by its agents or…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Raye Dinnerstein, of the Estate of Howard Dinnerstein v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
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