THOMPSON v. STATE


30 A.D.2d 914 (1968)

Elizabeth Thompson, Appellant, v. State of New York, Respondent. (Claim No. 44594.)

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

July 25, 1968


GIBSON, P. J.

Claimant-appellant's version of the case is that she and other inmates of Westfield State Farm, a reformatory for women, at about 11:15 A.M. on August 7, 1962, drank a quantity of duplicating fluid, one of the constituents of which was methyl alcohol, a poison; that thereafter the State breached its "duty of providing adequate medical attention for inmates of its penal institutions", this in the language of appellant's brief, consistent...

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