Simmons v. St. Clair Memorial Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• finding that jury could have concluded that decedent – a patient with suicidal tendencies receiving treatment in the psychiatric unit of a hospital – looked to the hospital for care
• holding trial court erred in not permitting the jury to determine the relationship between the parties for, while the evidence of agency “may have been tenuous,” there was a factual dispute for the jury
• holding trial court erred in not permitting the jury to determine the relationship between the parties for, while the evidence of agency “may have been tenuous,” there was a factual dispute for the jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).