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GUARDIANSHIP OF DACH

272 Wis. 120 (1956)

GUARDIANSHIP OF DACH: STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, Respondent, vs. SCHIPPER, Guardian, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

February 7, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief and oral argument by Lorin L. Kay of Richland Center.

For the respondent there was a brief by Frank P. Fosgate, collection and deportation counsel, and Charles C. Lubcke and Clarence Simon, assistant counsel, and oral argument by Mr. Simon.

BROADFOOT, J.

Many objections are advanced to support the contention that the order is invalid. These arguments may be summarized as follows:

The governing statutes are secs. 51.22 and 46.10; that sec. 46.10 is in derogation of the common law and is to be strictly construed; that Dorothy Belle Dach was committed as an epileptic; that epilepsy is neither insanity nor mental illness; that sec. 46.10 describes neither the ward, the care and maintenance, nor the...

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