COLLINS v. STATE


23 A.D.2d 898 (1965)

Mary Collins, as Administratrix of The Estate of Maurice Collins, Deceased, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant. (Claim No. 36815.)

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

May 6, 1965


Per Curiam.

On December 25, 1958, the attendant in charge of the ward in which the decedent was a patient found the door of the bathroom section of the ward closed. On entering he found the decedent slumped against a radiator under a window with a shoelace around his neck attached to a cord which was attached to the window. The decedent died on January 6, 1959. A supervising psychiatrist of the hospital stated that the cause of death was "cerebral edema and...

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