In re the Application for the Commitment of Murtaugh
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
•Appeal by Sarah A. 0. Murtaugh from an,-orcjer of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Albany, entered • in said Surrogate’s Court on. the 31st day of July, 1906, striking out from a . decree theretofore entered in said court the provision, directing the petitioner, Richard W. Hurtaugh, to pay costs to the said Sarah A. C. Hurtaugh.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
This was an application made upon the petition of Richard W. Hurtaugh for an order, to commit his wife, this respondent,. Sarah A. C. Hurtaugh,' to a hospital for the insane. The petition was accompanied by the certificate of two licensed examiners in lunacy, as prescribed by the-statute. Upon the hearing before the -surrogate the.petition was dismissed, and in the decree dismissing the petition costs were charged against the said Richard W. Hurtaugh in the sum of $111.90. Thereafter the said Richard W. Hurtaugh made a motion before the surrogate to correct the decree by striking ■…
2Cited by1 opinion
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