Skar v. City of Lincoln

HANSON, Senior District Judge.

This case presents an appeal from the judgments of the district court1 in a tort action arising out of the injuries sustained by William T. Skar when he leaped into a window in the psychiatric ward of Lincoln General Hospital (the hospital) in Lincoln, Nebraska. Skar brought suit against the City of Lincoln in its capacities as operator of the county-city jail, and as operator of the hospital; 2 Midwest Physicians Services, Inc. (Midwest), which operated the emergency room at the hospital; and Dr. Robert Osborne, a psychiatrist who cared for Skar at the hospital.…