Case Name: Montgomery County Trust Company, as a Committee of the Person and Property of Anastasia K. Powers, an Incompetent, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1954-05-20
Citations: 283 A.D. 1008
Docket Number: Claim No. 31630
Parties: Montgomery County Trust Company, as a Committee of the Person and Property of Anastasia K. Powers, an Incompetent, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 283
Pages: 1008–1009

Head Matter:
Montgomery County Trust Company, as a Committee of the Person and Property of Anastasia K. Powers, an Incompetent, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant.
(Claim No. 31630.)

Opinion:
—Order entered October 5, 1953, modified in accordance with the memorandum and as modified affirmed, without costs of this appeal to either party. Appeal from order entered December 5, 1953, dismissed as academic. Memorandum: To permit the examination of the physicians and nurses employed by the hospital as to the " propensities " of the person who assaulted claimant is to permit examination as to a professional opinion, and would require more than a disclosure of matters set forth in the hospital record. It would call for professional opinions which are not proper upon such examination as is allowed here. Therefore, item 6 of the second paragraph of the order should be modified to read as follows: " 6. The knowledge and information of the agents, servants and employees of the Utica State Hospital and of the State of Hew York as to information contained in the hospital records of the person who is alleged to have assaulted the said Anastasia K. Powers, which knowledge and information was gained by observation and not through professional knowledge." All concur. (Appeal from two orders (1) directing examination of defendant before trial, and (2) denying defendant's motion to amend the previous order.) Present — McCurn, P. J., Vaughan, Piper, Wheeler and Van Duser, JJ.