Legal Opinion
In Re Higdon
Washington Supreme Court
Decided April 15, 1948No. 30426PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJeffers, J.
On May 9, 1947, Fred Higdon filed in the superior court for Clark county, Washington, his affidavit wherein he stated that there was in such county an insane person whose name is Cecile D. Higdon, who, by reason of insanity, was unsafe to be at large. Affiant, who is Cecile D. Higdon’s husband, asked that his wife be arrested and taken before the court for examination.
On May 14, 1947, an insanity hearing was held before the Honorable Eugene G. Cushing, superior court judge for Clark county, and on the same date Cecile D. Higdon was committed to the Western State Hospital for the Insane. The…
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