Case Name: In the Matter of an Application for the Certification of Doris Coates, an Alleged Mentally Ill Person. Doris Coates, Appellant; Guy M. Waters, as Medical Officer of Rochester State Hospital, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1959-01-15
Citations: 5 N.Y.2d 917
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of an Application for the Certification of Doris Coates, an Alleged Mentally Ill Person. Doris Coates, Appellant; Guy M. Waters, as Medical Officer of Rochester State Hospital, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 917–918

Head Matter:
In the Matter of an Application for the Certification of Doris Coates, an Alleged Mentally Ill Person. Doris Coates, Appellant; Guy M. Waters, as Medical Officer of Rochester State Hospital, Respondent.
Argued May 9, 1958;
decided January 15, 1959.
Vito J. Cassan for appellant.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (J. Bruce MacDonald and Paocton Blair of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
Appeal dismissed, without costs, upon the ground that there is involved a question other than the validity of a statutory provision under the Constitution of the State or of the United States, i.e., a question of statutory construction (N. Y. Const., art. VI, § 7, subd. [2]; Civ. Prac. Act, § 588, subd. 4). No opinion.
Concur: Chief Judge Conway and Judges Desmond, Dye, Fold, Froessel, Van Voorhis and Burke.