Public Administrator v. State

Appeal by the State from a judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of the Public Administrator of the County of New York, in the sum of $9,187.50, for the death of an inmate of the Kings Park State Hospital.

Decedent had been transferred from Bellevue Hospital to the Kings Park State Hospital for care and treatment as a mentally ill person afflicted with schizophrenia. He was also diagnosed as suffering from dementia praecox. Apparently he got along fairly well until on June 1, 1948, he was subjected to an interview, in the presence of a hospital physician, by an inspector of the Bureau of…