People ex rel. Reiblich v. Waldo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, August Reiblich, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Trial Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 19th day of December, 1911, setting aside the verdict of a jury in plaintiff’s favor upon the issues raised by an alternative writ of mandamus, and granting a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Hotchkiss, J.:
On June 27, 1910, relator reported sick to a police surgeon and continued so to report until about July twelfth, when the surgeon sent him to Fordham Hospital and later to the Psychopathic ward at Bellevue. On July twentieth, on petition of the deputy commissioner of charities, the certificate of two medical examiners in lunacy and the affidavit of relator’s wife, under proceedings taken before a justice of the Supreme Court in pursuance of the Insanity Law (Gen. Laws, chap. 28 [Laws of 1896, chap. 545], art. 3, §§ 60-63, as amd.; revised by Consol. *418Laws, chap. 27 [Laws of 1909,…
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- Sporza v. . German Savings BankNew York Court of Appeals · 1908
- People Ex Rel. Metcalf v. . McAdooNew York Court of Appeals · 1906
- People Ex Rel. Mitchell v. . MartinNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
- Reiblich v. CropseyNew York Supreme Court · 1911
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