In re the Appointment of a Committee of the Person & Property of Roe

Burke, J. (dissenting).

Norman W. Roe, an octogenarian, was declared an incompetent in the proceedings below and a committee was appointed. It is somewhat less than undisputed that he was a resident only of Suffolk County, and not a resident of New York County. The papers submitted in support of the order to show cause stated that Mr. Roe was a resident of the Hotel Pierre in New York County and that, since being disabled in 1965 by a stroke, he had been staying at another residence in East Patchogue. Furthermore, those same papers indicated that Mr. Roe’s substantial intangible wealth was…