Pangle v. . Appalachian Hall

About the middle of November, 1922, plaintiff’s intestate, J. Súber, a farmer living near Newberry, S. 0., was brought to defendant’s^ hospital in Asheville, N. C., by his physician, Dr. W. H. Moore, who testified that Mr. Súber was then in a depressed mental condition, bordering on melancholia; that he informed Dr. M. A. Griffin, one of the managers of the hospital, of the patient’s condition, as he had observed it, and told him how Mr. Súber had recently spent a day in the graveyard, near his home, with a shotgun in his hands, under conditions which indicated suicidal tendencies. While thus…