Hellebrand v. Hoctor

MEREDITH, District Judge.

Plaintiff is a former patient of the Missouri State Hospital No. 4 at Farmington, Missouri, of which defendant is the Superintendent. In substance, the petition alleges that plaintiff, a citizen of Michigan, was falsely imprisoned through his involuntary confinement in the hospital by defendant, a citizen of Missouri, and that defendant assaulted plaintiff by causing him to undergo involuntarily electric shock treatments. Defendant has moved to dismiss the petition upon various,grounds separately discussed herein.

Upon defendant’s challenge of jurisdiction based on…