Bancroft v. Court of Special Sessions

The application was for an order in the nature of prohibition restraining the Court of Special Sessions and the Justices thereof from prosecuting a filiation proceeding instituted against the petitioner on the complaint of the mother of a child born out of wedlock. The department of public welfare in the city of New York, represented by the corporation counsel, has, in order to expedite the ultimate determination, withdrawn its contention that prohibition was not a proper remedy, under the circumstances of this case, and has consented that this court dispose of the application on its merits.

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