In re Perkins
District Court, S.D. New York
In the matter of the application of Frederick Perkins to amend his application to become a citizen and the order thereon admitting him to be a citizen of the United States, by changing the name of Frederick Persky to Frederick Perkins.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge:
The petitioner was duly naturalized as Frederick Persky in 1898, and subsequently, in 1912, had his name changed by order of the County Court of Kings county to Perkins. He now asks that the naturalization record be changed throughout by substituting the name “Perkins” for “Persky.”
Admitting the general principle that after the term has passed the court cannot alter a judgment, he contends that this application is not to correct or change the record or the judgment in any substantial matter, but simply to make it conform to what is now the fact, viz., that Frederick Persky…
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- In re WoltonNew York Supreme Court · 1925
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