Legal Opinion
Lane v. Candura
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided May 26, 1978PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
This case concerns a 77-year old widow, Mrs. Rosaría Candura, of Arlington, who is presently a patient at the Symmes Hospital in Arlington suffering from gangrene in the right foot and lower leg. Her attending physicians recommended in April that the leg be amputated without delay. After some vacillation, she refused to consent to the operation, and she persists in that refusal. Her daughter, Grace R. Lane of Medford, filed a petition in the Probate Court for Middlesex County seeking appointment of herself as temporary guardian with authority to consent to the operation on behalf…
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