New York Supreme Court January 15, 1963 (Slotnick v. Hilleboe)

Hyman Korn, J.

Petitioner, in this article 78 proceeding, seeks to amend a death certificate so as to recite the cause of death as ‘1 accidental ’ ’ rather than occasioned by 1 ‘ myocardial infarction ”.

The respondents, the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health and the Coroner of Rockland County, cross-move before answering (Civ. Prac.