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ALLEN v. DEPT. OF MENTAL HEALTH

Docket No. 29950.

79 Mich. App. 170 (1977)

261 N.W.2d 247

ALLEN v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided October 11, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bookholder & Storchan, for plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Norbert G. Jaworski, Assistant Attorney General, for defendants.

Before: DANHOF, C.J., and T.M. BURNS and A.E. KEYES, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs brought a wrongful death action in the Court of Claims alleging negligence by defendants' employees in allowing plaintiffs' decedent to be temporarily released from a state mental health facility. Plaintiffs' decedent committed suicide while on a temporary visit to his parents' home. The Court of Claims granted defendants' motion for accelerated judgment, grounded on sovereign immunity, MCLA 691.1407; MSA 3.996(107). Plaintiffs appeal as of...

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