Reynolds v. Howe
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for a writ of habeas corpus; brought to the Court of Common Pleas, and beard before Studley, J. The complaint alleged that John Reynolds, a minor son of the plaintiff, of the age of eleven years, was confined without law or right in the State Reform School at Meriden by the defendant, and prayed that a writ of habeas corpus might be issued.
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Application for a writ of habeas corpus; brought to the Court of Common Pleas, and beard before Studley, J. The complaint alleged that John Reynolds, a minor son of the plaintiff, of the age of eleven years, was confined without law or right in the State Reform School at Meriden by the defendant, and prayed that a writ of habeas corpus might be issued. The return of the defendant alleged that he was the legally appointed superintendent of the State Reform School, and as such had the body of the said John Reynolds in his custody, under a mittimus issued by Milton M. Wood-ford, a justice of the…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
This is a case of habeas corpus, the complaint alleging that one John Reynolds, a minor of the age of eleven years, is unlawfully confined in the State Reform School at Meriden. The return states that he. is held upon a mittimus issued by a justice of the peace on a judgment rendered by him upon the complaint of a grandjuror, alleging that the said Reynolds was in danger of being brought up, and was in fact being brought up, to lead an idle and vicious life, contrary to the statute in such case provided. The reply of the plaintiff avers that an appeal was taken in due form from the judgment…
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