Court Opinion

ID: 9661150
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:30:35.214975+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:25.763508
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ROBERTS, P. J.
(dissenting). I dissent from the opinion of the majority. To me the facts in the instant case do not differ materially from those in Bartron Clinic v. Kallemeyn, 60 S.D. 598, 245 N.W. 393, 395. In that case the sheriff of Hamlin County apprehended two persons after their admittance to a hospital in another county. This court in that case said that the sheriff “could not lawfully leave them in appellant’s hospital excepting only upon one theory, namely, that they were his prisoners; that it was his duty as sheriff to provide reasonably for their welfare; and that their condition demanded and it was his duty under the particular circumstances to furnish care and attention of a type and kind that could not be provided in the county jail or elsewhere than in a hospital.” Ted Cooper was not at liberty in the sense that the'sheriff was not further concerned with him and had no right to apprehend. He was in the hospital with the knowledge and consent of the sheriff who had a duty or responsibility in the matter and as stated in the Bartron Clinic case his continuance in the hospital resulted from the act of the sheriff and no one else.