MATTER OF BUTTONOW


52 Misc.2d 687 (1966)

In the Matter of Josephine Buttonow, an Incompetent Person.

Supreme Court, Special Term, Queens County.

December 30, 1966


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seymour Kagan, committee in person. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Marie A. Beary of counsel), for Central Islip State Hospital. Martin Siegelbaum for Mental Health Information Service, Second Judicial Department.


JOSEPH M. CONROY, J.

This is a special proceeding by the committee, appearing pro se, for a judgment declaring void and setting aside a conversion of his ward's status at Central Islip State Hospital from that of an "involuntary" patient to that of a "voluntary" patient, and for other and further relief under article 4 of the CPLR.

The incompetent has been a patient and resident at the hospital...

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