Ex Parte Higgins v. Hoctor

This is an application to this court for writ of habeascorpus. The application for writ, made by the attorneys for Mary E. Moynihan, states that she is unlawfully deprived of her liberty by the superintendent of the State Insane Hospital No. 4 at Farmington, Missouri. The writ was issued and it is shown by the return of the superintendent of the State Insane Hospital and the reply thereto petitioner and the certified copies of the record attached to these pleadings that as stated in the statement in petitioner's brief:

"A proceeding to have Mary E. Moynihan, the petitioner herein, declared of…