Case ID: nys_24/html/0621-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PRATT, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(71 Hun, 182.)
    PEOPLE ex rel. TOY v. MAYER.
    (Supreme Court, General Term, Second Department.
    July 28, 1893.)
    Writ op Prohibition—Peremptory and Alternative Writs.
    There is no merit in an appeal from an order granting a peremptory writ of prohibition to prevent a commitment to prison where no point is made that the case was not a proper one for the writ, or that the facts did not warrant it, but the only point is that it should have been an alternative writ, though there was a hearing on the merits on an order to show cause.
    Appeal from special term, Westchester county.
    Application "for writ of prohibition on the relation of Daniel S. Toy against Alexander U. Mayer, as a commissioner of the superior court of Baltimore city, Md. From an order granting the same, defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Argued before BARNARD, P. J., and PRATT, J.
    Alexander U. Mayer, in pro. per.
    David H. Hunt, for respondent.
   PRATT, J.

There is no merit in this appeal. The only point made is that a peremptory writ of prohibition was issued, instead of an alternative writ. No point is made that this was not a proper case for such writ, or that the facts did not warrant it, but only that an alternative writ should have been issued. A héhring upon the merits was had upon an order to show cause, which, in effect, fully answered the purpose of an alternative writ. The object of the proceeding was to prevent the defendant from oppressively and illegally committing the relator to prison; and the fact that it was called a “writ of prohibition” is not material so long as the decision was right upon the merits, and a proper result was accomplished. No object could have been served by issuing an alternative writ, as it appeared that only a question of law was involved, and a short cut was adopted to accomplish a just result. Order affirmed, with costs and disbursements.