In re Bruni
New York Supreme Court
This matter came before this court on the return of two certioraris; one directed to Judge Edwards of the supreme court, and the other to William W. Drinker, one of the special justices appointed under the laws of this state for preserving the peace in the city of New-York.
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This matter came before this court on the return of two certioraris; one directed to Judge Edwards of the supreme court, and the other to William W. Drinker, one of the special justices appointed under the laws of this state for preserving the peace in the city of New-York. The facts of the case are these: Paul Bruni, a Swiss, shipped on board the French steamship Philadelphia, a vessel in the employ of the French Transatlantic Steam Navigation Company, in the month of July last, as a domestic, for the voyage from Cherbourg in France, to New-York, and back. On the arrival of the steamer at…
1Opinion of the Court · EdwardsEdwards, J.
At the commencement of the investigation, in this case, I decided that the commitment was prima facie legal, and justified the detention of the relator; that I had no power, under this proceeding, to examine into any question of mere error, irregularity, or want of form; and that the only question before me was, whether the magistrate who issued the process of commitment had jurisdiction. (The People v. Nevins, 1 Hill, 154. 3 Id. 661, note sub. 31, and cases there cited.) It was not denied, on the contrary it was admitted, by the counsel for the relator, on the final argument, that this was…
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