Thornton v. F.J. Cherry Hospital

I believe that the majority has erred in its application of the law of negligence to the facts of the present case. Because I believe that Defendant negligently breached its duty to protect Plaintiff from harming himself, I respectfully dissent.

Plaintiff was involuntarily committed to Defendant Cherry Hospital as a danger to himself on May 16, 2000, after cutting his own head, chest, and legs extensively with a box cutter in the hope of receiving narcotic painkillers for his injuries. After commitment to Defendant hospital, Plaintiff made repeated efforts to obtain narcotic painkillers from…