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IN MATTER OF GUARDIANSHIP OF EBERHARDY

No. 78-661.

102 Wis.2d 539 (1981)

307 N.W.2d 881

IN the MATTER OF the GUARDIANSHIP OF Joan I. EBERHARDY, Incompetent: Quintin EBERHARDY and Mary Eberhardy, guardians, Appellants-Petitioners, v. CIRCUIT COURT FOR WOOD COUNTY, the Hon. Dennis D. Conway, presiding, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the petitioners there were briefs (in this court) by Edward F. Zappen and Zappen, Meissner, Oestreicher, Craig & Hayden, and William J. Dehn, guardian ad litem, with oral argument by Edward F. Zappen and William J. Dehn, all of Marshfield.

For the respondent the cause was argued by Donald P. Johns, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief (in court of appeals) were Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and George B. Schwahn, assistant attorney general.

HEFFERNAN, J.

This is a review of a court of appeals decision1 affirming an order of the circuit court for Wood county which dismissed the guardians' petition seeking the court's approval for their consent to the surgical sterilization of a severely retarded adult daughter.

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The question in this case is whether the circuit court has jurisdiction to authorize the duly appointed guardians of an adult mentally...

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