People ex rel. Strohsahl v. Strohsahl

This is a litigation between a brother and sister for the custody of a child of the brother. The child is now eleven years of age. The father, Frederick V. Strohsahl, is a resident of the State of New Jersey. In the fall of 1917 he suffered from an attack of dementia melancholia and was duly committed to a New Jersey State hospital for the insane under an act substantially s’milar to the New York State Insanity Law. Upon such commitment, the wife of Frederick V. Strohsahl went to live with her parents, taking with her the two children of said Frederick V. Strohsahl, Vincent and his younger…