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MATTER OF ASKER

284 A.D. 712 (1954)

In the Matter of the Accounting of Ralph Asker, as Committee of the Person and Estate of Leonard Asker, an Incompetent Person, Respondent. Department of Mental Hygiene of the State of New York, Appellant

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

October 27, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Margaret D. Hazel, Wendell P. Brown and E. David Kiley of counsel), for appellant.

Walter H. Edson for respondent.

All concur. Present — VAUGHAN, J. P., KIMBALL, PIPER and WHEELER, JJ.

KIMBALL, J.

On July 9, 1952, Leonard Asker, an aged man, was committed to the Gowanda State Hospital. This is one of the State hospitals named in section 60 of the Mental Hygiene Law, "for the care and treatment of the poor and indigent mentally ill of the state; but other mentally ill persons, who are residents of the state, may be admitted when there is room therein for them". On October 9, 1952, Ralph Asker...

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