Matters of  Josiah Oakes, Sen'r, four years wrongfully imprisoned in the McLean Asylum
Subtitle: through an illegal guardianship, by means of bribery and false swearing : containing a full account of the hearing before the Supreme Court at Lowell with Judge Metcalfe's interested charge to the jury, contrary to law and evidence, and Chief Justice Shaw's opinion on the law respecting insane persons, confuted by extracts from the revised statutes, showing it to be in direct opposition to the law : together with opinions of the press and much other interesting matter
Contributors: Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court
Publisher: Published by special request
Published: 1850
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Mentally ill; Commitment and detention; Insanity (Law)
Notes: Cover title; dated from Court session at Lowell on April 23, 1850.