In Re Osborne

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal, expedited of necessity, from an order of Judge Bacon of the Superior Court refusing to appoint a guardian to give consent for the administration of a blood transfusion to a patient, a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith, who was receiving emergency treatment at a hospital. The case originated by the hospital’s petition which was accompanied by an affidavit. After two hasty hearings, ably conducted by Judge Bacon — one in her home the night of the accident and the other the following day on a request for reconsideration — the case came on for…