Thall v. State

— Appeal from a judgment in favor of claimants, entered March 29, 1972, upon a decision of the Court of Claims. On September 6, 1969 the claimant Anne Thall was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant who was identified as a youthful escapee from a State mental institution. He had previously escaped from similar institutions, and his attack on claimant followed a pattern which he had previously exhibited. There can be no serious doubt that the appellants were on notice as to his escapist and assaultive tendencies, and that an attack such as that on claimant, was a foreseeable risk of an…