People ex rel. Van Buren v. Superintendent of the New York State Reformatory for Women At Bedford

This is a motion to dismiss a writ of habeas corpus issued by Hon. Joseph Morsehauser, a justice of this court, at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, December 30, 1921, and returnable at a Special Term of this court at Newburgh on the 7th day of January, 1922, requiring the respondent to produce the body of Vera May Van Burén before the said court.

The application is based on two grounds:

First, that the petition on which the writ was issued is insufficient in that it does not comply with the requirements of the Civil Practice Act, section 1234, subdivisions 4 and 5 of which read as follows:

“ 4. If…