Thornton v. City of Flint

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• enough evidence to raise issues of fact for jury to decide whether defendant knew, or should have known, of plaintiff’s condition
• enough evidence to raise issues of fact for jury to decide whether defendant knew, or should have known, of the decedent’s condition
• question whether plaintiff was contributorily negligent in inflicting serious injuries on himself while in delirium tremens or whether defendant jailers negligently caused those injuries by failing to take protective steps was for jury to decide
• question whether plaintiff was contributorily negligent in inflicting serious injuries on himself while in delirium tremens or whether defendant jailers negligently caused those injuries by failing to take protective steps was for jury to decide
• Act of plaintiff prisoner, who was chronic alcoholic suffering from delirium tremens, of diving from top bunk in his cell, “although ‘intentional,’ may not have been one of free volition,” and question of whether plaintiff could recover was therefore for the jury

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