People Ex Rel. Wellington v. Wellington

This is an appeal from an order that committed respondent Anthony C. Wellington to the Department of Mental Health for hospitalization as a person in need of mental treatment. In this appeal, the only issue is whether it was reversible error for the trial court to overrule objections and permit a psychologist to testify as an expert witness and give his opinion concerning respondent’s mental condition. The parties are in agreement concerning the material facts.

Early in September 1974, respondent’s mother, Anna M. Wellington, filed a petition in which she sought his hospitalization because she…