Williams v. State

Appeal from an order of the Court of Claims which denied the State’s motion to dismiss for insufficiency the claim of an infant born out of wedlock to a mother confined in a State hospital for the mentally ill; the claim alleging that the State negligently failed to provide adequate supervision for the mother and to protect her from attack and that such negligence resulted in the infant claimant’s “being conceived, being born and being born out of wedlock to a mentally deficient mother ”; whereby claimant has been damaged in that she “has been conceived and born, and born out of wedlock, with…