MATTER OF POST


199 Misc. 1075 (1951)

In the Matter of the Application of Gordon Post et al., for a Writ of Habeas Corpus to Inquire into the Cause of Detention of Edna Post, an Infant.

Supreme Court, Special Term, Rensselaer County.

June 27, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Cohen for Gordon Post and another, petitioners.

M. Andrew Dwyer, Jr., for Guardian Angel Home.

John W. Nichols for Commissioner of Public Welfare, Saratoga County.


TAYLOR, J.

On January 5, 1951, Edna Post, an infant fourteen years of age, was committed by the Children's Court of Saratoga County to the custody of Saratoga County Commissioner of Public Welfare who thereafter placed the child in the Guardian Angel Home at Troy, New York. The proceeding in that court was instituted by the petition of the police chief of the Village of Stillwater where the infant resided which...

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