Clemens v. Matera

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered March 6, 1972 in Rensselaer County, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to set aside a Coroner’s report and directed that a new investigation be conducted. The body of James Clemens was discovered *915in Ms apartment on November 9, 1970. The Coroner’s physician filed a certificate of death by suicide with the Office of Vital Statistics for the City of Troy on November 10, 1970. An article 78 proceeding was commenced on January 24, 1972 to set aside the report of the Coroner and…