Weightman's Estate

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

In January, 1935, William Walker Weightman, then a mental patient in Norristown State Hospital, to which he had been summarily committed in June, 1934, upon the certificate of two qualified physicians under the provisions of Section 302, Article III, of the Mental Health Act of July 11, 1923, P. L. 998, 1001, 50 PS §42, exercised the rights given him (Section 601, Article VI, P. L. 1020, as amended by the Act of April 27, 1925, P. L. 337, 50 PS §171) to communicate with counsel and to procure a writ of habeas corpus to determine whether or not he was properly…