Legal Opinion
People ex rel. Choolokian v. Mission of the Immaculate Virgin
New York Supreme Court
Decided December 30, 1947PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLttmbaed, J.
The relator Hamportzoon Choolokian by writ of habeas corpus directed to the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin in whose keeping are two of his sons, George 12, and Albert, 11, and the New York Foundling Hospital in whose keeping is his daughter, Alice, 6, and by amendment, directed also to the commissioner of welfare of the city of .New York as the head of the agency to whose care the relator had voluntarily committed these children, asserts his right to have these children returned to him for the purpose of taking them to Soviet Armenia. At the time of securing the writ the father had planned…
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