Smedley v. Taylor

Peremptory order of mandamus requiring the defendant, the comptroller of the city of New York, to issue warrants in the sum of $300 each, payable to the petitioners as their respective fees for services as commissioners in a proceeding instituted under the Mental Hygiene Law (§85; former § 83-a) to determine the dangerous insanity of one Pearl Talmadge, a poor and indigent person, who had been previously committed to the Brooklyn State Hospital, Creedmoor Division, Queens county, under the same law, and resulting in her commitment to the Matteawan State Hospital, reversed on the law and not…