Anderson v. Hicks
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, James M. Anderson, committee, etc., from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Westchester Special Term, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 13th day of March, 1911, granting the defendant’s motion to vacate a judgment for the annulment of a marriage.
1Dissent
Woodward, J. (dissenting);
Eugene Anderson was adjudged an. habitual drunkard in April, 1888, and in May of that year his brother, James M. Anderson, the plaintiff, was appointed committee of his person. Eugene was placed in an institution known as the Brunswick Home, in Amityville, L. I., and while there he met another inmate of the home, the defendant Josephine M. Hicks. It seems that this woman had ’ been adjudged an habitual drunkard, one James Pearson being her committee. These two incompetents, appear to have been accorded a large measure of liberty, and in June, 1894, they were joined…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Wood v. BakerNew York Supreme Court · 1904
- Coddington v. LarnerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902