SZOSTAK v. STATE


20 A.D.2d 828 (1964)

Jadwiga Szostak, Individually and as Administratrix of The Estate of Edmund M. Szostak, Deceased, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant. (Claim No. 35893.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

March 5, 1964


The Court of Claims found upon preponderant evidence that decedent's suicidal tendencies were known to the hospital authorities and that he was confined in a closed ward where the patients were, for the most part, deteriorated, disturbed and suicidal; that the attendant on duty on the night shift during which decedent came to his death observed decedent out of bed on four occasions between 1:30 A.M. and 4:30 A.M. and on none of these occasions investigated the cause or reported...

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