Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York March 6, 1981 (Hanes v. Ambrose)

lead-opinion

Appeal from so much of an order of the County Court of St. Lawrence County, entered May 29, 1980, which granted petitioner’s application, pursuant to section 33.03 of the Mental Hygiene Law and regulations promulgated thereunder, for an order authorizing certain surgery to be performed on respondent. Respondent, who is 76 years of age, had been a patient at the St.