Smith v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the claimant, Alice E. Smith, as administratrix from a determination and judgment of the Board of Claims of the State of New York, entered in the office of the clerk of said board on the 26th day of January, 1915.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
In June, 1908, claimant’s intestate, on the petition of a commissioner of public charities of the city of New York, and the certificate of two duly qualified medical examiners in lunacy, was by an order of a justice of the Supreme Court duly adjudged insane, and committed to the Manhattan State Hospital, an institution maintained by the State for the care and treatment of its poor and indigent insane, on Ward’s island in the city of New York.
On or about November 3, 1908, claimant’s intestate escaped from said hospital, and about two weeks later his dead body was found in the East…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Schloendorff v. Society of the New York HospitalNew York Court of Appeals · 1914
- Downes v. Harper HospitalMichigan Supreme Court · 1894
- Perry ex rel. Perry v. House of RefugeCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1885
- Roberts v. . the StateNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Duncan v. Nebraska Sanitarium & Benevolent Ass'nNebraska Supreme Court · 1912
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