Strickland v. DeKalb Hospital Authority

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• holding that summary judgment to defendant was appropriate when it was not foreseeable that appellant would leave hospital and shoot and kill his wife after being left unattended under the effects of various medications
• noting that the intervening criminal act in that case broke the causal chain between the defendant’s breach of its duty and the plaintiff’s injury, and finding, asa matter of law, that the suffered injury was “too remote for the law to countenance a recovery.”

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