King v. McLean Asylum of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
This was a petition by William EL King, by Caleb Eaton, Ms next friend, for a writ of habeas corpus. The circuit court discharged the writ, and remanded petitioner to the custody of the McLean Asylum of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Petitioner appealed.
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This was a petition by William EL King, by Caleb Eaton, Ms next friend, for a writ of habeas corpus. The circuit court discharged the writ, and remanded petitioner to the custody of the McLean Asylum of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Petitioner appealed. After appeal, appellant filed a petition for a process of contempt, on the ground that he had been removed from such asylum, in the district of Massachusetts, to the Butler Insane Asylum, at Providence, within the district of Rhode Island.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This hearing was based on two petitions, — one filed by the appellant on the 15th day of May, 1894, setting out that since the writ was discharged in the court below, and the petitioner, King, remanded to the custody of the McLean Asylum of the Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the appel-lees, the petitioner was removed from that asylum and out of the district of Massachusetts, to the Butler Insane Asylum, at Providence, within the district of Rhode Island, but within this circuit, and therefore praying for process for contempt, and also praying the protection of…
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