DeMontiney v. Desert Manor Convalescent Center, Inc.

OPINION

EUBANK, Judge.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s denial of plaintiff-appellant’s motion for a new trial in a wrongful death action, which resulted from decedent’s suicide. The relevant facts are not in dispute.

On June 7, 1978, appellant’s son, Bobby Alcaida, committed suicide while held at appellee Desert Manor Convalescent Center’s (Desert Manor) health care facility located in Yuma, Arizona. The decedent had unsuccessfully attempted suicide the previous day in Parker, Arizona and was taken into custody by Parker police, who later transferred him to the Yuma County Sheriff’s…