Knapp v. Moreno

Plaintiff appeals as of right from a circuit court opinion and order granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment, GCR 1963, 117.2(1), for failure of plaintiff to plead facts in avoidance of governmental immunity.

On February 12, 1981, plaintiffs decedent was admitted to the Ypsilanti Regional Psychiatric Hospital (YRPH) as a voluntary patient. She was interviewed on that date by defendant, a YRPH staff psychiatrist. Defendant noted a patient history of drug and alcohol abuse, multiple psychiatric hospitalizations and numerous suicide attempts. Defendant believed that plaintiffs decedent…