Stallman v. Robinson

BARRETT, C.

The appellants, Dr. G. Wilse Robinson, Sr., Dr. G., Wilse Robinson, Jr., Dr. Louise Loewy and Dr. Robert S. Darrow, operate a private hospital or sanitarium and are specialists in the care and treatment of the mentally ill. The plaintiff’s wife, Ruby Marie Stallman, entered the defendants’ institution as a patient on the 6th day of March 1949 and four days later committed suicide by hanging or strangling herself with strips of cloth torn from her nightgowns and fastened to a water pipe in the bathroom. In this action against the appellants to recover damages for her negligent death…