Fitzpatrick v. Young

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Refusing writ:

This is an application to this court by the petitioner Fitzpatrick asking that we issue a writ of prohibition against the Hon. W. A. Young, judge of the circuit court for the 21st district, to restrain him as judge of the court from entertaining jurisdiction of an appeal prosecuted to the circuit court of Montgomery County from the county court of that county.

The question arises in this way: In May, 1911, the petitioner, Fitzpatrick, was adjudged, in a proper proceeding had in the Montgomery County Court, to be a person of unsound mind and…