Stalheim v. Doskocil

Gregory, Justice:

This appeal is from an order of the lower court overruling appellants’ demurrers to the complaints of respondent Ada Stalheim. We affirm.

These cases arose out of an assault on Mrs. Stalheim and the murder of her husband Martin Stalheim by Mannie Lee Law on September 9, 1974. Law had been judicially committed to the South Carolina State Hospital (State Hospital) on December 28, 1973 by the Probate Court of Florence County. Law escaped from the State Hospital on March 28, 1974, and assaulted the Stalheims some five months later.

Mrs. Stalheim initiated these three actions in…