Savage v. White

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

On July 27, 1925, the appellant, John A. Savage, filed a petition in the lower court for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of James A. Wood, alleging that Wood was wrongfully restrained of his liberty and held in confinement by the respondent, William A. White, at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, in the District of Columbia. The petitioner alleged that the color of authority by virtue of which the respondent held Wood in his custody was a certain pretended warrant of commitment issued by the Secretary of the Interior in supposed compliance with section 927, D. C. Code, based…