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DARLING v. AUGUSTA MENTAL HEALTH INST.

535 A.2d 421 (1987)

Eleanor M. DARLING v. AUGUSTA MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided December 22, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis M. Jackson (orally), Jackson & Pallas, Westbrook, for plaintiff.

Stephen C. Whiting (orally), Hewes, Douglas, Whiting & Quinn, Portland, for Joyce & Kerwin.

James E. Tierney, Atty. Gen., Linda Sibery Crawford (orally), Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, for A.M.H.I., et al.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, ROBERTS, WATHEN, SCOLNIK and CLIFFORD, JJ.

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff Eleanor Darling, personal representative of the estate of her son Frank Darling, appeals to this court the dismissal of her claims arising out of the murder by her son of his wife after he was discharged from the Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI) and then his suicide while an inmate in the Cumberland County jail. In Superior Court (Cumberland County) plaintiff sued AMHI, the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and...

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