Frazier v. Levi

PEDEN, Justice.

Application filed by the guardian of the person and estate of a mentally incompetent ward seeking an order authorizing an operation which would render the ward sexually sterile. There is no medical or physical necessity for the operation sought by the guardian; the application is based on social and economic grounds only.

When this cause was filed by the guardian in t.he County Court, a guardian ad litem was duly appointed for the ward; he filed on the ward’s behalf an exception in the nature of a general demurrer, asserting that under Texas law there are no grounds upon which…