MAHONEY v. LENSINK

(6331)

17 Conn. App. 130 (1988)

RICHARD E. MAHONEY, SR., ADMINISTRATOR (ESTATE OF RICHARD E. MAHONEY, JR.) ET AL. v. BRIAN LENSINK, COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL RETARDATION, ET AL.

Appellate Court of Connecticut.

Decision released November 29, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Wynne, for the appellants (plaintiffs).

Andrea Gaines, assistant attorney general, with whom were Henri Alexandre, assistant attorney general, and, on the brief, Joseph I. Lieberman, attorney general, and Richard J. Lynch, assistant attorney general, for the appellees (defendants).

DUPONT, C. J., BORDEN and NORCOTT, JS.


DUPONT, C. J.

The plaintiffs, Richard E. Mahoney, individually and in his capacity as administrator of his son's estate, and Barbara Mahoney, individually, brought this action against the commissioners of mental health, state police and mental retardation.1 They alleged that the death of their son, while a patient at Norwich Hospital, was caused by the defendants' negligent, wanton, and willful...

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