SCHAFER v. ETHRIDGE

Docket No. 82053.

158 Mich. App. 654 (1987)

405 N.W.2d 411

SCHAFER v. ETHRIDGE

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided March 26, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz, P.C. (by Paul Hines and Richard D. Toth), for plaintiff.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and George L. McCargar and Mark S. Meadows, Assistant Attorneys General, for defendants.

Before: MacKENZIE, P.J., and ALLEN and G.W. CROCKETT, III, JJ.


MacKENZIE, P.J.

Linda Kay Schafer suffers from profound mental retardation and has the mental equivalence of a child at age two or younger. Although she can make noises, she has no vocabulary. From 1964 through 1978, Linda was a resident of defendant Oakdale Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities, which is operated by defendant State of Michigan, Department of Mental Health. In late 1977, Linda, then twenty years old, developed an infection in her urinary...

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