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MINNESOTA EX REL. PEARSON v. PROBATE COURT

No. 394.

309 U.S. 270 (1940)

MINNESOTA EX REL. PEARSON v. PROBATE COURT OF RAMSEY COUNTY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 26, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph F. Cowern for appellant.

Messrs. Chester S. Wilson and Kent C. van den Berg, with whom Messrs. J.A.A. Burnquist and John A. Weeks were on the brief, for appellee.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant, Charles Edwin Pearson, petitioned the Supreme Court of Minnesota for a writ of prohibition commanding the Probate Court of Ramsey County, and its Judge, to desist from proceeding against him as a "psychopathic personality" under Chapter 369 of the Laws of Minnesota of 1939. A proceeding under the statute had been brought in the Probate Court for the commitment...

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