Dabkowski v. Davis

The case before us charges 2' physicians with false imprisonment and assault and battery.

The case arose out of the removal of plaintiff to-the Kent County Receiving Hospital. Plaintiff’s-husband had applied to the probate court to have-her committed to the Kalamazoo State Hospital as a mentally ill person, which application was still pending at the time of the incidents herein described.. Following a conversation between the plaintiff’s; husband and the probate judge, the details of which are not disclosed in the record, the certificates of' the defendants were obtained and presented to the…