Mulligan v. State

The double title which prefaces this opinion identifies two cases which were argued together. A brief statement of the facts involved will pose the problem each appeal presents— problems similar but not identical.

In Matter of Warrington — the petitioner is the committee of an incompetent person who, in September, 1945, while confined as a patient at Kings Park State Hospital fell to the ground below from a fourth-floor doorway in one of the hospital buildings, thereby sustaining injuries alleged to be permanent. To ascertain the circumstances surrounding the incompetent’s injury and to…