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ETHELYN I.C. v. WAUKESHA COUNTY

No. 97-2236.

221 Wis.2d 109 (1998)

584 N.W.2d 211

IN the MATTER OF the GUARDIANSHIP OF ETHELYN I.C., Incompetent: ETHELYN I.C., Appellant, v. WAUKESHA COUNTY, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided July 22, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Lynne A. Layber of Milwaukee.

On behalf of the respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of Fritz Mielke, assistant corporation counsel.

Before Snyder, P.J., Brown and Anderson, JJ.

SNYDER, P.J.

Ethelyn I.C. was the subject of an emergency detention petition. Six days after she was detained at Waukesha Memorial Hospital, a court commissioner determined that the County had "failed to meet its burden of Probable Cause" and had failed to prove that Ethelyn was "incapable of providing for her own care or custody as to create a substantial risk of serious harm to herself or others." A few days later, the County instituted guardianship proceedings...

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