In re Rosecrans

Appeal from that part of an order of the Supreme Court (Hughes, J.), entered June 3, 1987 in Albany County, which denied petitioners’ application pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law § 77.27 to fix compensation for their services as conservators of the property of Bruce M. Rosecrans.

In 1981, at the age of 19, Bruce M. Rosecrans (hereinafter the conservatee) contracted spinal meningitis. As a result, he suffers from encephalopathy and is now in a permanent state of akinetic mutism, involving a lack of spontaneous movement and awareness and unresponsiveness to most stimuli. He is presently a patient…