Carlino v. State

Appeal from a judgment entered February 16, 1967, upon a decision of the Court of Claims, which dismissed a claim for *988damages due to a fall from an open and unbarred second-story window in the Pilgrim State Hospital. Claimant, a patient at the hospital, had originally been diagnosed as schizophrenic, catatonic type. The presence of epilepsy was also suspected, although no firm diagnosis had been made. She was assigned to an open ward and was being given daily dosages of melaril for tranquilizing purposes and dilantin for the prevention of convulsions. There were two principal versions of the…