Summary
In Douglas v. State of New York (296 N.Y. 530), it was held that officers of a State hospital, accepting a patient for treatment, were justified in regarding as valid an order of the Special Surrogate, regular on its face, without making inquiry as to the underlying authority of that judicial officer to make the order.
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Submitted June 12, 1946
Decided July 23, 1946
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, GREENBERG, J.
Benedict S. Rosenfeld and Albert Jakobson for appellant.
Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General ( John R. Davison and Wendell P. Brown of counsel), for respondent.
Judgment affirmed, without costs. The paper entered in the Court of Claims pursuant to the order of affirmance by the Appellate Division, although styled an "order," was in effect a judgment. No opinion.
Concur: LOUGHRAN, Ch. J., LEWIS, CONWAY, DESMOND, THACHER and FULD, JJ. Taking no part: DYE, J.