IN RE McKINNEY

Calendar No. 44,426.

326 Mich. 190 (1949)

40 N.W.2d 114

In re McKINNEY.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Release denied December 7, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence J. Hammond, for petitioner.

Stephen J. Roth, Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, and Daniel J. O'Hara, Assistant Attorney General, for respondents.


Release denied by an equally divided court December 7, 1949.

CARR, J. (for discharge).

By order of the probate court of Lenawee county, entered January 14, 1949, Geraldine R. McKinney was adjudged an insane person and was committed to the Ypsilanti State Hospital. The present action has been instituted in her behalf by her father to obtain her release. The petition filed alleges that Mrs. McKinney's detention is illegal in that mandatory provisions...

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