36 A.D. 47 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1898
Upon the petition of one James Egan, the husband of Julia H. Egan, an alleged lunatic, and upon the certificate of two physicians, Mr. Justice Cohen dispensed with the personal service of notice of the application upon the alleged lunatic and committed her to the Eong Island Home, an institution for the custody and treatment of the insane. Subsequently, upon a writ of habeas corpus, the alleged lunatic was brought before the Special Term of' the Supreme Court presided over by Mr. Justice Cohen, and after hearing counsel for the alleged lunatic and counsel for the institution in which she was detained, who was also counsel for the petitioner upon whose application she was committed, an order of the Special Term • was entered discharging the said Julia H. Egan from the custody of the said Long Island Home and vacating the order whereby the said Julia H. Egan was adjudged to be insane
We think the order was right and it is affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.
Yah Brunt, P. J., Barrett and McLaughlin, JJ., concurred; Patterson, J., concurred in result. "
Order affirmed, - with ten dollars costs and disbursements.