In re Perkins
New York Supreme Court
Petition for a rehearing and for a jury trial in the matter of Mary Miller, an alleged feeble-minded person.
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, J.
The superintendent of the poor of Cortland county pursuant to the authority conferred on him by section 461 of the State Charities Law, instituted a proceeding in County Court by petition, August 2, 1918, to commit Mary Miller, as a feeble-minded person, to the State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women at Newark. The alleged feeble-minded person was given notice of the hearing and on the return day she appeared by counsel and a day was agreed upon for trial. On the day appointed, to wit, December 18, 1918, the parties appeared with counsel and a trial was had, in which the issue was…
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