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DE SANCHEZ v. STATE, DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH

Docket No. 117298.

651 N.W.2d 59 (2002)

467 Mich. 231

Francine Cullari de SANCHEZ and Steven Jason, co-personal representatives of the estate of Thomas A. Baltus, deceased, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. STATE of Michigan, Michigan Department of Mental Health, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

September 11, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Herskovic & Domol (by Richard E. Shaw), Southfield, MI, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Jennifer M. Granholm, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Mark S. Meadows, Assistant Attorney General, Lansing, MI, for the defendant-appellant.

PER CURIAM.

The plaintiffs' decedent, an involuntary patient in a state psychiatric hospital, committed suicide in a hospital restroom. Plaintiffs, the personal representatives of decedent's estate, filed a wrongful death suit, alleging that the overhead bar from which decedent hanged himself was a "dangerous or defective condition of a public building." If proved, that allegation would bring the plaintiffs' claim within the public building exception to the defendant...

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