Case ID: nj-super_8/html/0060-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MILTON HAINES, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. WILLIAM DELAY, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.
    Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division
    Argued May 8, 1950
    Decided May 16, 1950.
    Before Judges McGeehan, Colie and Eastwood.
    
      Mr. James M. Davis, Jr., argued the cause for appellant.
    
      Mr. Eugene T. Urbaniak argued the cause for respondent (Mr. William Delay, pro se, on the brief).
   Per Curiam.

The plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the Burlington County Court, Law Division, which dismissed the writ of habeas corpus obtained by the plaintiff.

The defendant, a police officer of Massachusetts, made a return to the writ, in which he set forth that he had the body of the plaintiff before the court and that the plaintiff was held on a rendition warrant as a fugitive from justice from Massachusetts. No copy of any writ, warrant or other written authority for the detention of the plaintiff was annexed to the return and no original thereof was produced at the hearing, as required by B. S. 2 :82-25. At the hearing there was a complete failure to show any legal cause for the imprisonment or restraint of the plaintiff. Therefore, the plaintiff was entitled to a discharge.

The judgment is reversed.