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STATEN ISLAND MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETY, INC., v. RICHMOND COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN et al.
368 U.S. 290·Supreme Court of the United States·1961
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Opinion
STATEN ISLAND MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETY, INC., v. RICHMOND COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN et al.
No. 503.
Decided December 11, 1961.
Marland Gale and Leonard M. Leiman for appellant.
Mark F. Hughes for the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin for the Protection of Homeless and Destitute Children, and Sigmund A. Grajewski for the Children’s Aid Society, appellees.
[MAJORITY — Per Curiam.]
Per Curiam.
The motions to dismiss are granted and the appeal is dismissed. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ of certiorari, certiorari is denied.