Legal Opinion
People ex rel. Sherwood v. City of Buffalo
New York Supreme Court
Decided March 15, 1926PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
The relators were, upon their pleas of guilty, adjudged to be guilty of a violation of section 115-a of the Buffalo City Court Act (Laws of 1909, chap. 570, as amd: by Laws of 1925, chap'. 387), and were committed to the Buffalo City Hospital for a term of not to exceed one year, by the City Court of Buffalo. They are now detained by the hospital pursuant to such commitment.
*291Upon the return of the writ herein relators urged as grounds for their discharge from such commitments and detention, that said law under which the City Court acted did not give that court jurisdiction to adjudge them to…
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- People ex rel. Ordway v. St. Saviour's SanitariumAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
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