In Re Dayton

THE COURT.

By the petition herein it is shown that the chief of police of the city of Los Angeles, acting under instructions from the health department of said city, is depriving petitioner of her liberty and detaining her at the city jail; that such detention is being enforced by reason of a purported order of quarantine issued by the said health department, which order is based upon the alleged ground that the health authorities have reasonable and probable cause to believe that petitioner is affected with a contagious or infectious venereal disease. Petitioner alleges further that said…