Gianos v. State of Illinois, Department of Mental Health

This claim, sounding in tort, seeks damages for the wrongful death of claimant’s intestate, who committed suicide, and is based on the alleged negligence of respondent’s Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, hereafter referred to as "ISPI”.

From the evidence, it appears that on Juné 13,1968, claimant’s intestate, who was a patient at ISPI, a facility operated by the State Department of Mental Health located at Ashland Avenue near Taylor Street in Chicago, eloped from said institution and thereafter, on said date, took his own life. Claimant contends that the State was negligent in failing to…