Dale v. Hahn

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

These cross-appeals are from an order entered May 7, 1973 in the Southern District of New York, Whitman Knapp, District Judge, which (1) held that the 1962 state court order declaring plaintiff-appellee-appellant Rita Hooper Dale (“appellee”) to be incompetent and appointing a committee to manage her affairs was null and void ab initio; and (2) directed the return to appellee by def endants-appellants-appellees (“appellants”) 1 of the sum of $2,152.35, plus interest from July 24, 1962, representing expenditures, other than payments to the New York State Department of…