Tittler v. La Burt

The father of a 12-year-old child, a patient in Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens Village, New Yorlc, since July, 1957, has brought this action against the director of that hospital to restrain him from discharging the child from said institution, and has now moved for a temporary injunction for the same relief. The defendant has made a cross motion to dismiss the complaint for legal insufficiency and upon the ground that this court has no jurisdiction over him individually and as director of Creedmoor State Hospital.

At the earnest request of the plaintiff he was permitted to submit an…