Cowan v. Doering

Supreme Court of New Jersey · Decided 1988-08-11

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The opinion of the Court was delivered by HANDLER, J. What are we to make of Marilyn Cowan’s defenestration? When Ms. Cowan jumped from a second-story hospital room, she was a patient being treated for an overdose of sleeping pills, taken in an earlier suicide attempt that same morning. Her jump from the window left her with serious injuries. Ms. Cowan came to believe that others…

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