Gillman v. United States

GURFEIN, District Judge.

This action was brought under the Federal Torts Claim Act (28 U.S.C. 2671-80; 1346(b)) by the decedent’s widow as Administratrix. The deceased, Raymond Walter Gillman, was a mental patient in the Northport Hospital maintained by the Government. On May 10, 1967 Gillman committed suicide by immolating himself, after dousing himself with turpentine, in the courtyard of the Hospital. The plaintiff charges that the United States failed to care for the decedent properly since he was known to have suicidal tendencies and that his death resulted from the defendant’s negligence.