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POLLITT v. HALL

No. 6919.

93 F.2d 249 (1937)

POLLITT v. HALL.

United States Court of Appeals for District of Columbia.

Decided November 15, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Basil H. Pollitt, of Newark, N. J., pro se.

Leslie C. Garnett, U. S. Atty., Allen J. Krouse, Asst. U. S. Atty., Elwood H. Seal, Corp. Counsel, D. C., and T. Gillespie Walsh, Asst. Corp. Counsel, D. C., all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before ROBB, GRONER, and MILLER, Associate Justices.

PER CURIAM.

Petitioner (appellant), who is a lawyer, was in June, 1935, adjudged in a lunacy proceeding in the District Court to be of unsound mind and subject to detention and treatment. He has since been detained in St. Elizabeths Hospital. In January of 1937 he filed a petition for habeas corpus. The writ issued and the cause was heard January 15, 1937, the writ discharged, and petitioner remanded to the custody of the superintendent of the hospital. On January...

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