Goins v. State Board of Control

ROBERT L. BLAND, Judge.

Claimant Harry Goins, now residing at Cleveland, Ohio, but formerly a citizen of West Virginia and an attendant at Lakin State Hospital located in Mason county, is seeking an award in the sum of $5,000.00 to compensate him for damages claimed to have been sustained on account of an alleged assault made upon him on the first day of October, 1934 by an inmate of the hospital. Lakin State Hospital is an institution for the treatment and care of mentally defective negro persons. Claimant’s petition, setting forth the nature and character of his claim against the state, was…