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finding of negligence warranted where hospital "knew that the deceased, while a patient in the hospital, was possessed of a desire and propensity to escape that on a previous occasion she had escaped through a similar window" yet left her sufficiently unguarded that she "removed a lug from the window of the toilet room through which she escaped," falling or jumping to her death
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Argued October 25, 1935
Decided November 20, 1935
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department.
John J. Bennett, Jr., Attorney-General ( Leon M. Layden and Henry Epstein of counsel), for appellant.
Crandall Melvin, Lawson Barnes and Louis Young for respondent.
Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: CRANE, Ch. J., LEHMAN, O'BRIEN, HUBBS, LOUGHRAN and FINCH, JJ. Not sitting: CROUCH, J.