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LUCY WEBB HAYES NATIONAL TRAIN. SCH. FOR D. & M. v. PEROTTI

No. 21902.

419 F.2d 704 (1969)

LUCY WEBB HAYES NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR DEACONESSES AND MISSIONARIES, etc., Appellant, v. Hilda J. PEROTTI, Administratrix of the Estate of William L. Perotti, Deceased, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 10, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. John L. Laskey and Thomas Penfield Jackson, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. John Jude O'Donnell, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Robert S. Bourbon, Rockville, Md., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, PRETTYMAN, Senior Circuit Judge and LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge.

BAZELON, Chief Judge:

Early on a Sunday morning in January 1964, William L. Perotti plunged from the seventh floor of the Sibley Memorial Hospital, which he had entered the afternoon before as a psychiatric patient. Despite emergency treatment, he died later that morning. His widow, as the administratrix of his estate, obtained a jury verdict for $60,000 against the appellant corporation, which operates the hospital, under the District of Columbia wrongful death statute...

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