Legal Opinion
Schmidt v. Goddin
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided December 3, 1982No. Record 811750PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
In 1953, William Charles Schmidt, Jr. (Schmidt), then age 43, was found to be mentally ill and committed to Westbrook Sanitorium in Richmond. He has remained there ever since.
On March 6, 1981, Christina Schmidt and William Charles Schmidt, III, Schmidt’s children, filed a petition pursuant to Code § 37.1-134.1 asking the court to declare their father restored to mental competency. In their petition, they alleged, inter alia, that on December 30, 1980, they first learned that Westbrook had technically discharged Schmidt as an “involuntary” patient on October 29, 1974. The certificate of…
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