Spitzer v. Lewark

Respondents assign as error Judge Bundy’s second finding of fact on the ground that there is no competent evidence in the record to support it. This assignment of error is overruled.

The second finding of fact finds support in the joint affidavit of Lindsey and Alma Swindell, the affidavit of Roxana O’Neal, mother of feme petitioner, and in the reports of Dr. Walter A. Sikes, superintendent of Dorothea Dix Plospital, of Dr. Ben E. Britt, clinical director o-f Dorothea Dix Hospital, and of Emma J. Edwards, director of public welfare of Pasquotank County, to Judge Bundy. There was no abjection…