Opinion
November 22, 1994
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Bronx County, Barry Salman, J., Louis Gonzalez, J., Stanley Green, J.
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Anne Targum, J.).
The issues raised in the appeal from the earlier order are mooted by the second order on appeal, which was rendered after a jury trial at which all hospital records were received in evidence, and at which the question of the need for the petitioner's institutionalization was considered ab initio. The evidentiary issue raised on the appeal from the earlier order is not a broad one, nor does it apply to a large number of patients (cf., Ughetto v. Acrish, 130 A.D.2d 12, 17, appeal dismissed 70 N.Y.2d 871), and we therefore decline to review it under any exception to the mootness doctrine.
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Ellerin, Kupferman and Williams, JJ.