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DUNAISKY v. STATE

Nos. 80-295, 80-306.

122 N.H. 280 (1982)

MICHAEL DUNAISKY & a. v. THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE & a. TOWN OF ENFIELD, CONNECTICUT v. THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

April 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barrett & McNeill P.A., of Durham (John T. Barrett on the brief and orally), for the plaintiffs.

Gregory H. Smith, attorney general (Loretta S. Platt, attorney, on the brief and Jeffrey R. Cohen, assistant attorney general, orally), for the State.

BOIS, J.

The issue in these cases is whether the State of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Hospital are liable to the plaintiffs, a Connecticut police officer and his wife and town which employed him, for personal injuries and property damage caused by an escaped mental patient who forced a police car off the road in Connecticut.

On October 19, 1973, Jacinto Oliveria was admitted to the New Hampshire Hospital for involuntary emergency hospitalization because...

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