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BEAUMONT v. MORGAN

Nos. 7516, 7517.

427 F.2d 667 (1970)

Susan BEAUMONT, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Alexander C. MORGAN, Defendant, Appellee. Susan BEAUMONT, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Christian W. AUSSENHEIMER et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

June 8, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Klubock, with whom Daniel F. Featherstone, Jr., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for appellant.

Lionel H. Perlo, and Donald J. Wood, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Daniel A. Lynch, Robert H. Quinn, Atty. Gen., and Ficksman & Conley, Boston, Mass., were on briefs, for appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, COFFIN, Circuit Judge, and FORD, District Judge.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Susan Beaumont brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking recovery for loss of liberty against six doctors, all of whom played a role in her two-week confinement in a Massachusetts mental hospital. The jury exonerated defendant Morgan, the doctor who had originally recommended hospitalization, but returned verdicts against the five doctors who had dealt with plaintiff while confined...

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