FORD v. DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR COUNTY OF LARIMER

No. 25514.

498 P.2d 1125 (1972)

Alice Marie FORD, Petitioner, v. The DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF LARIMER, State of Colorado, and The Honorable Dale E. Shannon, One of the Judges Thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied June 29, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rollie Rogers, State Public Defender, J. D. MacFarlane, Chief Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, Don L. Nelson, Edwin L. Felter, Jr., Deputy State Public Defenders, Fort Collins, for petitioner.

Starkey & Yeager, P. C., Berthoud, for respondents.


GROVES, Justice.

This matter is before us under a rule to show cause after the filing of an application here under C.R.C.P. 106. The question presented for our determination is whether the petitioner, Mrs. Ford, has validly been adjudicated mentally ill. We rule in the negative and make the rule absolute.

On November 4, 1970, Evelyn Erickson, the daughter of the petitioner, filed in the respondent district court two petitions, one being a printed form and...

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