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CREMONESE v. CITY OF NEW YORK

17 N.Y.2d 22 (1966)

Louis Cremonese, Respondent, v. City of New York, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 17, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo A. Larkin, Corporation Counsel (Alfred Weinstein, Seymour B. Quel and Bernard J. Dillon of counsel), for appellant.

Bernard Meyerson for respondent.

Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges FULD, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE, SCILEPPI and KEATING concur.

BERGAN, J.

After extensive medical tests and procedures in a city hospital, the plaintiff's wife died. The hospital medical staff was unable to give any definite cause of her death or to make a specific diagnosis. The problem in the case involves the authority of the medical examiner to determine in the public interest that there should be an autopsy.

She was admitted to the Coney Island Hospital, operated...

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