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NASON v. SUPERINTENDENT OF BRIDGEWATER STATE HOSPITAL

353 Mass. 604 (1968)

233 N.E.2d 908

JOHN W. NASON vs. SUPERINTENDENT OF BRIDGEWATER STATE HOSPITAL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 5, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Homans, Jr., for the petitioner.

Willie J. Davis, Assistant Attorney General, for the respondent.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, CUTTER, KIRK, & REARDON, JJ.

CUTTER, J.

In Nason v. Commissioner of Mental Health, 351 Mass. 94, 98, this court held that the commissioner could not be compelled by mandamus to make available proper psychiatric treatment to Nason, a patient at Bridgewater State Hospital (Bridgewater). Cases were cited, however, where "the legality ... of ... confinement" had been tested either by habeas corpus or by...

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