Legal Opinion
Hake v. Manchester Township
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided January 22, 1985PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
O’HERN, Justice.
This is a wrongful death action brought by plaintiff-parents against Manchester Township, its Chief of Police, a duty sergeant, and an unknown police officer. Plaintiffs sought damages for negligent conduct that they alleged contributed to cause the suicide-death of their seventeen-year-old son at police headquarters. Margaret Hake died while this appeal was pending.
Plaintiffs advanced two factual theories in support of their cause of action: (1) that the negligent supervision of their son while in defendants’ custody contributed to…
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