Legal Opinion
Appeal of Niccoli
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 28, 1977No. 57PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*391OPINION OF THE COURT
EAGEN, Chief Justice.
On October 16, 1975, appellant Albert L. Niccoli, who was then 54 years of age, divorced, and living with his 86-year-old father and next door to his 56-year-old brother, appellee Emil V. Niccoli, voluntarily signed himself into the Leech Farm Veterans Administration Hospital [Leech Farm] as a psychiatric patient after a violent physical altercation with his brother over the type of food that ought to be given to their invalid father. On October 23, 1975, while Albert Niccoli was still a patient at Leech Farm, Emil Niccoli filed a petition in the…
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