MATTER OF WOGELT


223 A.D.2d 309 (1996)

646 N.Y.S.2d 94

In the Matter of Edda Wogelt, a Person Alleged to be Incapacitated. Hanna Lichtenstein, Appellant; Marion Stone, as Designated Guardian, Respondent

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

July 25, 1996


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Felice Wechsler of counsel (Marvin Bernstein, Director, Mental Hygiene Legal Service, First Judicial Department, attorney), for Edda Wogelt.

Jonathan David Bachrach, P. C., New York City, for appellant.

WALLACH, RUBIN and WILLIAMS, JJ., concur.


MURPHY, P. J.

Edda Wogelt, a 93-year-old widow of independent means and self-reliant inclination, resided alone in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side until May 1995. At that time, complaining of dizziness, she was admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital. Following consultation with officials from Mount Sinai, Jonathan David Bachrach, an attorney who had drafted...

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