Callbeck v. State

This is an action brought by claimant, Martha Call-beck, against respondent, the State of Illinois, to recover $7,500.00 in damages for personal injuries, which she sustained in the early morning hours of October 10, 1953, when she was awakened in her bedroom, attacked and assaulted by an insane patient at the Chicago State Hospital where she was employed in the capacity of housekeeper by the Illinois State School of Psychiatric Nursing, a branch of the Chicago State Hospital.

She charges in her complaint that this institution was operated by respondent for the purpose of caring for and…