MATTER OF JAMA


51 Misc.2d 9 (1966)

In the Matter of Robert P. Jama.

Civil Court of the City of New York, Special Term, New York County.

July 26, 1966


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Goldberg for petitioner.


MAURICE WAHL, J.

This is an application for judicial approbation for a change of name pursuant to section 60 et seq. of the Civil Rights Law. The petitioner, Robert Paul Jama, seeks to call himself Robert von Jama and alleges that somewhere, sometime, in the past his deceased father told him that the family name was originally von Jama but that the von part had been dropped and the name Jama alone was used.

The petitioner, an American-born...

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