IN RE OPAL

Calendar Nos. 48,210, 48,519.

360 Mich. 696 (1960)

104 N.W.2d 802

In re OPAL.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Writs dismissed September 15, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Anuta and Messner & LaBine, for plaintiff.

Paul L. Adams, Attorney General, Samuel J. Torina, Solicitor General, and Daniel J. O'Hara, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant probate court.


EDWARDS, J.

Two applications for original writs of habeas corpus and ancillary writs of certiorari to the probate court of Houghton county were filed in the Supreme Court of Michigan. These petitions seek to attack commitment proceedings whereby petitioner Clayton R. Opal was committed to the Newberry State Hospital by reason of mental illness.

The first such order of commitment was signed April 1, 1955, following a hearing before Judge Joseph M. Donnelly...

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