Warner v. Packer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Flavius Packer and another; from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the coiinty of Rockland on the 24th day of October, 1907; upon the verdict of a jury for $25,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of November, 1907, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
The action is for negligence. The plaintiff had been confined for a time in an insane asylum upon her husband’s petition, to which was annexed a certificate of the defendants as- examiners in lunacy that she was insane and was a proper subject for custody and treatment in some institution for the insane. She complains that the defendants made a false, pretended and grossly negli*208gent examination of her as to her mental-condition ;■ that she was not insane then Ox; at any time; that the defendants, willfully failed and neglected to. úse or to exercise reasonable and ordinary" care,…
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