PEOPLE EX REL. MC NEILL v. MORROW


32 A.D.2d 375 (1969)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Horace McNeill, Arthur Waszcyszuk, Karl Zapp, Arthur Boyle, Jose Colon, Thomas Samuels, Anthony De Lestre and Arthur Joyner, Respondents, v. James J. Morrow, as Director of The Woodbourne Rehabilitation Center, Appellant

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

July 14, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Ruth Kessler Toch and William C. Robbins of counsel), for appellant.

Burton M. Ledina for Horace McNeill and another, respondents.

Martin I. Lipnack for Arthur Waszcyszuk, respondent.

Walter S. Gersten for Arthur Boyle and another, respondents.

Theodore Drew for Jose Colon, respondent.

Murry P. Gaiman for Thomas Samuels, respondent.

Scheinman & Kalter (Ivan Kalter of counsel), for Anthony DeLestre, respondent.

Frank S. Hogan, District Attorney (Bennett L. Gershman of counsel), for appellant in Samuels, Colon and Joyner appeals.

GIBSON, P. J., REYNOLDS, STALEY, JR., and COOKE, JJ., concur.


HERLIHY, J.

These are appeals from eight judgments of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered May 12, May 13, May 14 and May 15, 1969 in Sullivan County, which sustained writs of habeas corpus. No appeal was taken by the Director in the case of People ex rel. Urbano v. Morrow.

These appeals primarily concern the construction of section 210 of article 9 of the Mental Hygiene Law. This section...

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