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MATTER OF COATES

8 A.D.2d 444 (1959)

In the Matter of an Application for the Certification of Doris Coates, an Alleged Mentally Ill Person In the Matter of the Application of Doris C. Coates for Review of the Proceedings for Certification to the Rochester State Hospital of Doris C. Coates, an Alleged Mentally Ill Person

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Fourth Department.

July 9, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whitbeck & Holloran (Vito J. Cassan of counsel), for appellant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (J. Bruce McDonald and Paxton Blair of counsel), for respondent.

Present — McCURN, P. J., KIMBALL, WILLIAMS, BASTOW and HALPERN, JJ.

BASTOW, J.

This appeal presents the question as to the time within which an alleged mentally ill person, or any relative or friend in his behalf, may obtain a rehearing, including the right to a jury trial, as to the issue of mental illness, as provided in section 76 of the Mental Hygiene Law after court certification of such person to a State hospital in accordance with section 74 of the same law.

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