Cameron v. State

Appeal is taken from a judgment in favor of claimants resulting from an assault upon the infant claimant, based upon the alleged negligence of the State. On August 4, *481967, claimant Patricia Cameron, aged 19, was severely injured when Dennis Buthy attacked her with a meat cleaver and butcher knife. Buthy, a former mental patient in a State hospital, had been discharged on June 20, 1967, following his last admission therein on June 15, 1967. The State has been charged with liability upon the theory that Buthy was both mentally ill and dangerous when discharged, that he should have had…