Myrick v. Superintendent of Worcester State Hospital

On April 10, 1953, Lockwood Myrick as president of the Massachusetts Mental Aid Society, Inc., and as a friend of one George A. Bigley, a patient in the Worcester State Hospital (a hospital for the care of the insane), filed in the Probate Court a petition in behalf of Bigley, praying that Bigley be adjudged sane. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 123, § 94A, inserted by St. 1947, c. 681, as amended by St. 1952, c. 535. Ancillary to such petition on the same day he filed a petition seeking (1) to be allowed to visit Bigley in private on any day between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ; (2) to be allowed to…