Lawrence v. Barlow

Mason, Judge:

The appellant, S. W. Lawrence, having been arrested in Tyler County, W. Va., and by a justice of the peace of that county adjudged to be a lunatic was committed to the Hospital for the Insane at Weston, and later transferred from that hospital to the Second Hospital for the Insane, at Spencer, W. Va., on the 25th day of August, 1913. Some questions are *290raised by the appellant as to the legality of the proceedings before the justice, but the view we take of the case makes it unnecessary to pass upon them.

The appellant remained in the hospital at Spencer until the 25th day of…