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In re Coates

5 N.Y.2d 917 Court N.Y. Decision date 1959-01-15 English

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p. 917
In the Matter of an Application for the Certification of Doris Coates, an Alleged Mentally Ill Person. Doris Coates, Appellant; Guy M. Waters, as Medical Officer of Rochester State Hospital, Respondent.
Argued May 9, 1958;
decided January 15, 1959.
p. 918
Vito J. Cassan for appellant.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (J. Bruce MacDonald and Paocton Blair of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal dismissed, without costs, upon the ground that there is involved a question other than the validity of a statutory provision under the Constitution of the State or of the United States, i.e., a question of statutory construction (N. Y. Const., art. VI, § 7, subd. [2]; Civ. Prac. Act, § 588, subd. 4). No opinion.

Concur: Chief Judge Conway and Judges Desmond, Dye, Fold, Froessel, Van Voorhis and Burke.