Finch v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““The record is silent as to the patient, whether he had on previous occasions tried to escape, and whether he was a patient who should have been permitted to work in the fields without supervision. In fact we have nothing to govern ourselves as to whether or not the State was negligent in allowing this patient the freedom which he apparently had, so that the truck in question was stolen, and consequently damaged. In the absence of such a showing, we think claimant was correct in his advancement of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitor, and that the burden would be upon respondent to make some showing as to this patient, i.e. whether or not he was one, who could be trusted in the manner in which he was in this particular case to work out in the field, or whether he should have been confined to the institution under close supervision. There being nothing in the record pertaining to this patient, other than the fact that the truck was stolen by him and damaged, we have no alternative but to find in favor of claimant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Buxbaum v. State