HINDS v. DEP'T OF CORRECTIONS

Docket No. 58340.

126 Mich. App. 99 (1982)

337 N.W.2d 1

HINDS v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided November 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Erlich & Rosen (by Richard E. Shaw), for plaintiff.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Peter J. Treleaven, Assistant Attorney General, Corrections Division, for defendant.

Before: R.B. BURNS, P.J., and D.F. WALSH and P.J. MARUTIAK, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff's decedent, Henry Hinds, an inmate at Jackson Prison, died on May 24, 1979, some six days after ingesting orange juice laced with toxic methanol-based duplicating fluid. The deadly potion was obtained from other inmates who had access to the toxic duplicating solution.

An amended complaint, alleging that the defendant was negligent in "maintaining and/or failing to discover the structural defect in the Jackson Prison facility which structural...

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