SHEPARD v. STATE

No. 87621.

957 P.2d 553 (1997)

1998 OK CIV APP 23

Letha SHEPARD and Betty Coffee, Co-Personal Representatives of the Estates of Erica Lachelle Wall, Deceased, and Jesse Fulton Wall, Deceased, Letha Shepard, Personal Representative of the Estate of Patty Louise Wall, Deceased, and Betty Coffee, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rick Wall, a/k/a Ricky Wall, Deceased, Appellees, v. The STATE of Oklahoma, ex rel. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, Appellant.

Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma, Division No. 4.

Certiorari Denied March 5, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Alan Rush, J. Duke Logan, Thomas J. McGeady, Logan & Lowry, LLP, Vinita, for Appellees.

W.A. Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, James M. Robinson, Assistant Attorney General, Oklahoma City, for Appellant.


Released for Publication by Order of the Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma, Division No. 4.

REIF, Judge.

¶ 1 This appeal arises from a suit by the personal representatives of the estates of four individuals whose deaths allegedly resulted from the negligent release of a patient from a hospital operated by the Department of Mental Health. Four days after his release, patient shot and killed his wife and two children...

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