McDONALD v. TOLEDO MENTAL HEALTH CTR.

No. 89AP-582.

67 Ohio App.3d 428 (1990)

McDONALD, Admr., Appellant, v. TOLEDO MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Franklin County.

Decided April 19, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rogers & Godbey Co., L.P.A., and George C. Rogers, for appellant.

Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., Attorney General, Debra J. DeSanto and Timothy Bojanowski, for appellee.


KERNS, Judge.

On April 18, 1986, Lillie Mae McDonald was murdered by her son Ronald McDonald while he was on a fourteen-day pass from the defendant, Toledo Mental Health Center, and on April 18, 1988, another son, Lawrence McDonald, commenced this wrongful death action in the Court of Claims alleging that the death of his mother was due to the negligence of the mental health facility.

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