40 A.D.2d 730 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1972
—Appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant, entered September 9, 1963, upon a decision of the Court of Claims dismissing the claim. Appellant filed a claim for alleged wrongful detention in Matteawan State Hospital from April 17, 1947 to July 25, 1957. Claimant was indicted on January 28, 1947 by the Grand Jury of Hew York County on 42 counts of forgery in the second degree and petit larceny. The charges were based on claimant’s issuance of a number of checks, each in the sum of $67.43, drawn on an account of one Reed in a Tennessee bank. Claimant signed Reed’s náme to each check alleging that she had been authorized to do so.' Reed did not honor the cheeks and denied the agreement. Prior to arraignment and plea to