People Ex Rel. Ledwith v. . Bd. of Trustees

Crane, J.:

Section 87 of the Insanity Daw (Cons. Laws, ch. 27), as amended by chapter 226 of the Laws of 1923, provides as follows:

“ Whenever in the city of Hew York an information is laid before a magistrate that a person is apparently insane the magistrate must issue a warrant directed to the sheriff of the county in which the information is made, or any marshal or policeman of the city of Hew York, reciting the substance of the information, and commanding the offiicer forthwith to arrest the person alleged to be insane, and bringing him before the magistrate’s court out of which the warrant…