COOK v. DOUGHERTY

No. 4731.

32 F.2d 839 (1929)

COOK v. DOUGHERTY et al.

Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.

Decided May 6, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alva O. Hearne and R. E. Lambert, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Wm. W. Bride and W. H. Wahly, both of Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB and VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justices.


VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia overruling the petition of the appellant to vacate and set aside the verdict of the jury of inquisition and the order of the court concerning the same entered on the 28th day of March, 1924, in which appellant was adjudged to be of unsound mind and committed to Saint Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane.

The proceeding amounts to a collateral attack...

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