Kline v. Shapley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the County of Middlesex on September 14,1918, by a majority of the Massachusetts commission on mental diseases, for the appointment of a guardian of Sarah C. Shapley of Newton, alleged to be an insane person. In the Probate Court, Chamberlain, J., found that Sarah C. Shapley was not an insane person and denied the petition. The petitioners claimed an appeal “by their attorney, Arthur Thad Smith, Special Assistant Attorney General.”
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Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the County of Middlesex on September 14,1918, by a majority of the Massachusetts commission on mental diseases, for the appointment of a guardian of Sarah C. Shapley of Newton, alleged to be an insane person. In the Probate Court, Chamberlain, J., found that Sarah C. Shapley was not an insane person and denied the petition. The petitioners claimed an appeal “by their attorney, Arthur Thad Smith, Special Assistant Attorney General.” In the Supreme Judicial Court, the respondent filed a motion to dismiss the appeal. Carroll, J., denied the motion and,…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This case is before us upon a report of a single justice of this court who denied a motion to dismiss the appeal. The appellants, describing themselves as a majority of the Massachusetts commission on mental diseases, filed in the Probate Court a petition for the appointment of a guardian of the respondent, who was alleged to be insane and confined in the Medfield State Hospital. The judge of probate found that the respondent was not an insane person and entered a decree dismissing the petition. The petitioners by their attorney as “Special Assistant Attorney General” claimed an appeal from…
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