In re Colah
New York Court of Common Pleas
Motion for the transfer of a lunatic now in the care and custody of the court, to his native country in the East Indies The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Daly, Chief Justice.
This is a renewal of an application previously made to me for the transfer of Bomanjee Byramjee Colah, a lunatic, now in the care and custody of this court, to Bombay, in India, and as the question of the power of the court to grant the application, and if it have the power, the further question, whether this is a case in which it ought to be exercised are of a very novel character, it will be necessary, first to consider the circumstances under which the application arises.
Colah is a native of Bombay, of the age of twenty-six years, and a Farsee, a well-known race in…
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