People ex rel. Baker v. Department of Health
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Department of Health of the City of Hew York, from an order of the Supreme Court; made at the Hew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 5th day of February, 1909, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendant “to change and correct the records” with respect to the name of the relators’ son.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The petitioners are husband and wife and at the times in question they resided in the borough of Manhattan, Hew York. On the 15th day of July, 1906, a male child was born to them. On that day the mother stated to the attending physician that she intended to name the baby Edward Young Baker, Jr., and on the twenty-third day of the same month she reiterated that intention to him, the statement on each occasion having been made in answer to a question put by him.
*694On the latter date the physician made a record of the birth of the child on his registry and forwarded a certificate…
2Cited by1 opinion
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