Ridgeview Institute, Inc. v. Handley

Pope, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff/appellee Hubert Handley filed suit against defendant Ridgeview Institute, Inc./appellant, seeking damages for false imprisonment based upon his involuntary commitment at the hospital. The trial court denied Ridgeview’s motion for summary judgment, and this appeal follows our grant of Ridgeview’s application for interlocutory review of the trial court’s order.

On Saturday, March 20, 1993, Kay Dunn, a psychiatric nurse and plaintiff’s daughter, called Dr. Ronald Rosen, a psychiatrist and co-defendant in this action, at his personal residence. She told Dr. Rosen…