Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Grove v. Jackson
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided September 12, 1936No. 88PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATSON, District Judge.
The relator, Merrill A. Grove, filed in this court his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging his illegal confinement at a state hospital for the insane, located at Danville, Pa., and belonging to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The material allegations of his petition are:
“That no ground of detention is alleged, to the knowledge of your petitioner, unless it be a certain order for commitment made by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Union County, Pennsylvania, on the. thirty-first day of March, A. D., 1936.”
“That the said commission did not notify your…
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3Cited by8 opinions
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