Johnson v. Grant Hospital

For reversal of the judgment of the Court of Appeals appellant advances two propositions of law: (1) “In an action for wrongful death based upon a breach of a specific duty of care owed by the defendant to a person committing suicide, the act of suicide is an intervening cause of death unless the decedent was mentally incompetent at the time he killed himself”; (2) “Where a patient in a general hospital indicates an intention to commit suicide and attempts to jump from a hospital window, is then locked in a security room on the order of her attending physician, a psychiatrist, with the…