Rawdin v. Long Island Home, Ltd.

In a wrongful death action to recover damages arising out of the alleged negligence of the defendant hospital in failing to prevent the suicide of plaintiff’s wife, the defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered December 20, 1963, after trial, upon a jury’s verdict of $65,000 in the plaintiff’s favor. Judgment reversed on the law and the facts, without costs, and complaint dismissed, without costs. Defendant hospital, to which the decedent was admitted on Sunday evening, January 4, 1959, specializes in the treatment of the mentally ill. On the morning of…