Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Smithsonian Institution
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 18, 2000No. 97 CIV. 5190(CBM)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
MOTLEY, District Judge.
BACKGROUND
William H Johnson was a prolific artist during the 1920s through 1940s. Johnson was born in South Carolina in 1901. He studied art in New York and Massachusetts in the 1920s. Johnson then moved from New York to Denmark in 1946. While traveling in Norway in 1947 Johnson was diagnosed with tertiary syphilis and deemed mentally incompetent. In 1947 Johnson was repatriated to the United States. He was involuntarily committed to Central Islip State Hospital in New York, where he remained until his death in 1970. In 1948 a Committee of the Person…
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