In re Larner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, Alma Louise Earner, and by William C. Beecher, her attorney, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term, bearing date the 17th day of September, 1901, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, denying a motion for an order directing the committee of the property of the petitioner to pay certain bills for services rendered upon her- application for discharge from judicial confinement.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
The facts are undisputed. The petitioner, Alma Louise Earner, appellant, was adjudged an incompetent by an order of the Supreme Court on the 18th day of May, 1900, and committed to the custody of Dr. James Ferguson at the Falkirk Sanitarium, Central Valley, N. Y. Her incompetency resulted from alcoholism. The Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company was appointed a committee of her estate, and Henry L. Goodwin the committee of her person. In June, 1901, a writ of habeas corpus was procured on her behalf by the appellant W. C. Beecher on her written request, Aloysius McMahon, her private…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Carter v. . BeckwithNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
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- In re StentonNew York Supreme Court · 1907
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