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DINNERSTEIN v. UNITED STATES

No. 3, Docket 72-2270.

486 F.2d 34 (1973)

Raye DINNERSTEIN, Executrix of the Estate of Howard Dinnerstein, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 16, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Falsey, New Haven, Conn. (Gold, Gold & Bernblum, Milton A. Bernblum, New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Thomas F. Maxwell, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty. (Stewart H. Jones, U. S. Atty., D. Conn., of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and SMITH and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

This action arose out of the suicide of plaintiff's husband while a patient at the Veterans Administration Hospital in West Haven, Connecticut.1 The only question on appeal is the validity of the district court's finding that the hospital officials and staff were negligent in permitting Mr. Dinnerstein's death. Both parties agree that under the Tort Claims Act, Connecticut law applies, and that under that...

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