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BANE v. SUPERINTENDENT OF BOSTON STATE HOSPITAL

350 Mass. 637 (1966)

216 N.E.2d 111

BERNARD BANE vs. SUPERINTENDENT OF BOSTON STATE HOSPITAL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 28, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Bane, pro se.

Willie J. Davis, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the respondent.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, CUTTER, KIRK, & SPIEGEL, JJ.

WILKINS, C.J.

The prayer in this petition for a writ of mandamus is that the respondent superintendent of the Boston State Hospital be commanded to permit the petitioner to examine, and to obtain copies of, the records of the petitioner's involuntary "admission and detention" at that hospital in 1963. The petitioner appealed from a denial of the petition.

The Boston State Hospital is under the control of the Department of Mental Health. G.L.c. 19, § 5...

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