Morgan v. State

—Cross appeals from a judgment entered upon a decision of the Court of Claims in favor of the claimant on one of her nine causes of action and dismissing the other eight. The basis of respondent’s claim is her confinement to, retention in, and treatment at various State mental facilities from May, 1957 to October, 1966. The Court of Claims found that on a number of occasions physical restraints were used on the. respondent, wrongfully and negligently, and that beatings were inflicted upon her, and awarded her the sum of $15,000 for her personal injuries. At the same time the court rejected…