Saunders v. Leesburg Institute, Inc.

BY JUDGE JAMES H. CHAMBLIN

This wrongful death case with negligence and breach of contract claims arose as a result of the suicide of Dr. Vernon M. Saunders, Jr., while a patient at Springwood Psychiatric Institute on January 21, 1991. It is before the Court on the Amended Demurrer of Leesburg Institute, Inc., t/a Springwood Psychiatric Institute, the Demurrer of Miller Brothers Constructors, Inc., the Demurrer of Ronald J. Garson, M.D., and the Special Plea of Illegality of A. Gibson Dunn, M.D. These defensive pleadings were argued on December 21,1992, and the Court has considered all the…