Hawthorne v. Blythewood, Inc.

The plaintiff is the administrator of the estate of Orin Willis Jaquish, deceased, and the defendant is a private sanitarium in the town of Greenwich. The complaint alleged that on August 20th, 1931, the decedent was admitted as a patient in the sanitarium for the purpose of care and treatment for nervous and mental disorders from which he was then suffering, and that the defendant thereupon undertook to furnish such care and treatment, for compensation; that the defendant had knowledge that the decedent had suicidal tendencies and that his condition was such as to require constant nursing,…