Commonwealth v. Cairns
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 18, Oct. T., 1911, by plaintiffs, from order of Q. S. Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1911, refusing writ of habeas corpus in case of Commonwealth ex rel. Henrietta F. Ogden et al. v. A. A. Cairns, Chief Medical Inspector of the Bureau of Health, and John B. Taylor, Superintendent of Police. Petition for writ of habeas corpus. Before Staples, P. J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was order refusing the writ.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
This case differs from Com. ex rel. v. Cairns, 46 Pa. Superior Ct. 96, in that in this case the court, after hearing, refused to issue the writ of habeas corpus, and the appeal from that order was taken before the period of quarantine had expired. But it is undisputed that before *266the return day of the appeal, and long before the appeal could be brought on for argument, the quarantine had been removed and the relators were no longer restrained of their liberty. If we were to decide the question of the validity of the quarantine regulation in their favor, we could make no order that…
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