Hahn v. Brown

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of the Court of Claims granting defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s complaint.

The record indicates that two minors, David Filkins and Kevin Dooley, were committed to the custody of the Ohio Youth Commission due to persistent problems in the Juvenile Courts. The Ohio Youth Commission assigned the two juveniles to its Maumee Youth Camp. During the night and early morning of August 24 and 25, 1974, the two boys escaped from the camp. In effecting the escape, the juveniles broke into plaintiff’s ear, hot-wired it, and drove it from the vicinity…