Legal Opinion
In Re Mears
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided February 10, 1964No. 1976Published
1Opinion of the Court
198 A.2d 27 (1964)
In re Donald Ernest MEARS.
No. 1976.
Supreme Court of Vermont. Washington.
February 10, 1964.
Eugene V. Clark, Bennington, for plaintiff.
R. Marshall Witten, State's Atty., Bennington, for defendant.
Before HOLDEN, C. J., and SHANGRAW, BARNEY, SMITH, and SYLVESTER, JJ.
SHANGRAW, Justice.
This is a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner, Donald Harold Mears, seeks to test the legality of the confinement in the House of Correction at Windsor, Vermont, of his minor son, Donald Ernest Mears. The following facts set forth in the petition are not in dispute.
The son, Donald Ernest Mears, a…
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