IN RE LEARY'S APPEAL

No. 39690.

136 N.W.2d 552 (1965)

Appeal of Lois M. LEARY from Probate Court. Odessa WALKER, Petitioner, Respondent, v. Lois M. LEARY, etc., by Harlan Smith, Special Guardian of her estate, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

July 23, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mandel & Stiegler, Minneapolis, for appellant.

George M. Scott, County Atty., Henry W. McCarr, Jr., and Douglas X. Juneau, Asst. County Attys., Minneapolis, for respondent.


KNUTSON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Hennepin County District Court determining that appellant is mentally ill and committing her to the State Hospital at St. Peter, Minnesota.

The proceeding here for review was preceded by a series of attempts to commit appellant to a state hospital. In March 1956 the probate court of Hennepin County determined that appellant was mentally ill and committed...

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