Moran v. District Court of Central Middlesex

This petition for a writ of error is reported without decision by a single justice. The petitioner, pursuant to proceedings purportedly under G. L. c. 123, §§ 50-54, 79, was a patient at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Bedford from November 7, 1959, to March 17, 1960. Although no longer a patient or subject to confinement or restraint, she nevertheless contends that she is entitled to an adjudication of error in the commitment proceedings.

In his report the single justice states that he has doubt whether the petitioner is entitled to relief by writ of error. A writ of error lies only…