Kirwan v. State

The plaintiff brought this action in two counts seeking damages for false imprisonment and for negligent medical or psychiatric treatment while he was confined from July 21, 1941, to August 11, 1967, in mental hospitals within Connecticut. A demurrer was sustained in respect to the defendant James H. Kinsella, the present probate judge for the district of Hartford, whose predecessor in office ordered the original commitment of the plaintiff to the mental hospital operated by the defendant Institute of Living on August 6, 1941. Judgment was entered on this demurrer, and the case also has been…