In Re Shepard
California Court of Appeal
PROCEEDING on Habeas Corpus to secure the release of a woman held under quarantine and isolation. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtWorks, J.
The petition in this matter is presented by a friend of Irene Shepard, and alleges that the latter is held under quarantine and isolation by the respondent, Dr. Alex M. Lesem, but that she is not afflicted with any disease quarantinable or isolable under the law. It is further alleged that the respondent has no information of the existence in Mrs. Shepard “of such diseases as may ... be made the cause” for her quarantine and isolation.
The respondent, by his return to the writ, alleges' that Mrs. Shepard is isolated in a hospital under his charge, “suspected of being infected with a…
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