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SHARPE v. S.C. DEPT. OF MENTAL HEALTH

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281 S.C. 242 (1984)

315 S.E.2d 112

James L. SHARPE, as Administrator of the Estate of Bobby Charles Sharpe, Respondent, v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPT. OF MENTAL HEALTH; William S. Hall, M.D.; Karl V. Doskocil, M.D.; Oliver Norman Evans, M.D.; and Patrick H. McDonaugh, M.D., Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

April 10, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. T. Travis Medlock, Retired Atty. Gen. Daniel R. McLeod, Deputy Atty. Gen. Raymond G. Halford, Asst. Attys. Gen. Edwin E. Evans, Robert D. Cook and George C. Beighley, Columbia, for appellants.

Walter G. Metcalfe, West Columbia, and Isadore S. Bernstein, Columbia, for respondent.

April 10, 1984.

LEWIS, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint of respondent.

The South Carolina Department of Mental Health (a State agency) and four licensed physicians on its staff have been sued in this action to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of a person shot and killed by a mental incompetent who had been treated and released from a facility...

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