Covey v. Town of Somers

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1956-05-07

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Mr. Chief Justice Warren delivered the opinion of the Court. The application of Article VII-A, Title 3, of the New York Tax Law to the mentally incompetent ward of appellant is challenged as being repugnant to the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The statute, in § 165 et seq., pr…

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