Ex parte Lewkowitz

HOLT, District Judge.

This is a writ of habeas corpus to obtain a minor’s discharge from the army. The petition alleges that the petitioner’s son is 18 years old and that he enlisted without his father’s consent. The return admits the son’s minority and„his enlistment without his father’s consent. It then alleges that when he enlisted he represented himself to be upwards of 21 years of age; that after enlistment, and before August 1, 1908, the date when the petition for the writ of habeas corpus was verified, he received allowances from the supply department of the United States army; that on…