PEOPLE EX REL. KAGY v. SEIDEL

Gen. No. 47,600.

22 Ill. App.2d 316 (1959)

160 N.E.2d 681

People of the State of Illinois ex rel. John M. Kagy, Conservator of Beth M. Dunham, Incompetent, and Beth M. Dunham, by Benjamin Wham, Her Attorney and Next Friend, Petitioners-Appellees, v. Charles G. Seidel and Lionel E. Clark, Acting Judges, and Robert Jerome Dunne, Judge of the Probate Court of Cook County, Respondents-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

Rehearing denied and opinion modified September 14, 1959.

Released for publication September 15, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin S. Adamowski, State's Attorney of Cook county (Francis X. Riley, Henry W. McGee, Jr., Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for respondents-appellants.

Yowell & Yowell, of Chicago, for John Kagy, Conservator of Beth M. Dunham, incompetent, and Benjamin Wham, of Chicago, attorney and next friend of Beth M. Dunham, incompetent.

Miller, Gorham, Wescott & Adams, of Chicago, Amicus Curiae.


JUSTICE SCHWARTZ delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior court of Cook county, directing the respondent judge and the acting judges of the Probate court of Cook county to expunge certain orders entered by the Probate court in the cause entitled, "Matter of Beth Dunham, Incompetent," and from the dismissal of the counterpetition of the respondent judges for the issuance of a writ of mandamus directed to the judge of the County...

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