In re Gilbert
New York State Hospital Commission
Report of the commissioner in lunacy on a question referred by the court. Eliza Gilbert, a woman of nearly seventy years of age, who had been found by inquisition to be of unsound mind and for whom a committee had been appointed, under whose care she had been for some twenty years, presented a petition to the supreme court to be allowed to make out of her property a gift of $3,500 for the support of certain indigent brothers and sisters, in sums of $500 each.
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Report of the commissioner in lunacy on a question referred by the court. Eliza Gilbert, a woman of nearly seventy years of age, who had been found by inquisition to be of unsound mind and for whom a committee had been appointed, under whose care she had been for some twenty years, presented a petition to the supreme court to be allowed to make out of her property a gift of $3,500 for the support of certain indigent brothers and sisters, in sums of $500 each. Her total property was about $25,600. The details sufficiently appear in the following report of the commissioner in lunacy to Mr.…
1Opinion of the Court
Ordronaux, Commissioner.
I have the honor to report that, in compliance with your request, I called at the residence of Mrs. Eliza Gilbert, Ho. 497 East Houston street, in the city of Hew York, on Friday, July 28, 1876, and spent two hours in an examination of her mental condition, with reference to determining her legal capacity to make the gift of property during her life-time, for which she prays permission in her petition of March 31, 1.876, addressed to this honorable court.
I found Mrs. Gilbert occupying two rooms on the second floor of the house in which she resides. Everything appeared…