People ex rel. Bentley v. Hanna
New York Supreme Court
A writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum was allowed by Mr. Justice Harris, directed to the Defendant, commanding him to bring the relator before the said justice, to inquire into the cause of his detention.
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A writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum was allowed by Mr. Justice Harris, directed to the Defendant, commanding him to bring the relator before the said justice, to inquire into the cause of his detention. In return to the writ, the Defendant claimed the right to the services and custody of the relator, by virtue of indentures of apprenticeship, executed by the superintendents of the poor of the county of Columbia, September 5, 1838, whereby, after reciting that the relator, a male child, aged 10 years, had been sent to the county poor-house, from the town of Kinderhook; he was bound to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Harris, Justice.
It has recently been held by Mr. Justice Willard, upon an application to him at his office in Saratoga Springs, in the case of Woodruff ads. The People, for the allowance of a writ of habeas corpus to bring up a prisoner confined in the jail of Washington county, that a county judge of the degree of counsellor, is authorised to perform the duties of a justice of the supreme court at chambers. In this decision I entirely concur. And it having been conceded, upon the hearing of this case, that there is in the county of Columbia a county judge of the degree of counsellor, the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People ex rel. Barry v. MerceinNew York Court of Chancery · 1839
3Cited by3 opinions
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