Legal Opinion · Dissent
Smithers v. St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 5, 2001Published
1DissentFriedman, J.
This appeal has its origins in a $10,000,000 gift made by R. Brinkley Smithers to defendant St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center for the creation of an alcoholism treatment program. Mr. Smithers began funding the gift in 1971 and, soon thereafter, in accordance with his desire to establish a free-standing alcohol treatment center, the hospital purchased a building at 56 East 93rd Street in Manhattan for $1,000,000. The building was to provide a non-hospital setting for the rehabilitation portion of the treatment program.
As the majority aptly notes, the relationship between Mr. Smithers and…
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