People ex rel. Wehle v. Weissenbach
New York Court of Appeals
Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, to review order affirming, upon certiorari, an order of a justice of said court, overruling demurrer to a return, and dismissing and discharging a writ of habeas corpus, issued upon the petition of relator, which required defendants to produce the body of Ella Wehle, otherwise called Maimi Weissenbach, and remanding her to the custody of defendants.
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Error to the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, to review order affirming, upon certiorari, an order of a justice of said court, overruling demurrer to a return, and dismissing and discharging a writ of habeas corpus, issued upon the petition of relator, which required defendants to produce the body of Ella Wehle, otherwise called Maimi Weissenbach, and remanding her to the custody of defendants. The petition upon which the writ was issued stated, in substance, that the petitioner is the father of Ella Wehle, an infant of the age of seven years, who is…
1Opinion of the CourtFolger, J.
The board of public officers in New York city known as the commissioners of public charities and correction, was created by the act of 1860, chapter 510. (Laws of 1860, p. 1026, § 1.) By that act, the alms-house department of the city and county of New York and the office of governor of the alms-house was abolished (Id., § 3.) The board by the act created was empowered and directed to possess and exercise full and exclusive powers for the management, etc., of the several institutions which had been under the control of the board of governors of the alms-house, and especially of the nurseries…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People Ex Rel. Barbour v. . GatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1870
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