In re Santora

The husband by a second marriage of an incompetent, duly committed to the Manhattan State Hospital for the Insane, threatens to remove her from this jurisdiction and take her to her place of birth in Italy. The removal is opposed by the children of the incompetent by her first marriage who assert that she herself does not desire to be taken from this State, where her children may readily visit her, she having stated to them that she has no friends or relatives in the country of her birth. The petition also contains allegations tending to show that the respondent is influenced by ulterior…