CASTLE v. LOCKWOOD-MACDONALD HOSPITAL

Docket No. 10318.

40 Mich. App. 597 (1972)

199 N.W.2d 252

CASTLE v. LOCKWOOD-MACDONALD HOSPITAL

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided May 24, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dreyer & Porter, for plaintiff.

Clare L. Gillett, for defendants.

Before: FITZGERALD, P.J., and R.B. BURNS and TARGONSKI, JJ.


TARGONSKI, J.

This case involves a wrongful death action. The deceased was a patient in the intensive care room on one of the upper floors of the defendant Lockwood-MacDonald Hospital. During the night of May 17, 1967, the deceased fell or jumped to death from a window in the room. Thereafter, the following sequence of events transpired.

On May 14, 1970, pursuant to her petition, Emma Castle, widow of the deceased...

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