The incompetent, an inmate of the Rockland State Hospital, was assaulted by a fellow inmate. Appellant contends that the State was negligent in failing to provide adequate supervision of the ward in which the assault took place. There were a total of forty-two patients in the ward, most of whom had known assaultive tendencies, and, at the time of the assault, three attendants had been assigned to care for them. Of these three attendants, two were inexperienced, one of them...
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