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MATTER OF COATES

5 N.Y.2d 917 (1959)

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.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided January 15, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vito J. Cassan for appellant.

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

Concur: Chief Judge CONWAY and Judges DESMOND, DYE, FULD, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS and BURKE.

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...

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