Legal Opinion

In re Floyd Brooks

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided December 3, 1951No. Calendar No. 45,084PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtReid, C. J.

Floyd Brooks is being detained in the Lapeer State home and training school as a feeble-minded person by virtue of a commitment by the probate court for Ionia county, dated May 22, 1947.

Howard Brooks, father of Floyd Brooks, filed the petition in this matter for writ of habeas corpus to relieve Floyd Brooks from such detention.

*629Petitioner claims that the petition to the probate court for said commitment was defective by reason of failing to state the facts on which a conclusion of feeble-mindedness of Floyd Brooks was predicated; that 2 physicians did not file sworn certificates of the alleged…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. In Re PayetteMichigan Supreme Court · 1946

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. In Re FullerMichigan Supreme Court · 1952
  2. In Re AllisonMichigan Supreme Court · 1953
  3. Hanneman v. Mount Pleasant State Home & Training SchoolMichigan Supreme Court · 1953
  4. In Re FullerMichigan Supreme Court · 1952

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