Kates v. State

This claim arose from the death by suicide of a patient at Brooklyn State Hospital on March 8,1962 and has not been assigned or submitted to any other tribunal. In some unexplained manner claimant’s intestate jumped through a window on the fourth floor and fell to her death. A State employee had been directed to repair a broken window in the utility room of the ward and had gone there at about 11:00 a.m. He unlocked the door and went in and closed the door behind him. He unlocked and opened the window bars and examined the broken glass. He determined that carpenter work was necessary to…