Dunbar v. Greenlaw

The defendant excepts to the overruling of his demurrer to the plaintiff’s amended declaration in tort.

Defendant is a physician. The plaintiff accuses him of having erroneously certified in ancillary, emergency, insanity, detention proceedings, R. S., Chap. 27, Sec. 105, without sufficient inquiry or examination, that the plaintiff was insane. Plaintiff was detained in a state hospital and claims resultant damage.

The amended declaration contains the following recitation of the standard of care legally required by the plaintiff from the defendant and of the defendant’s failure to fulfill it:

“It…