Legal Opinion
Hiatt v. Soucek
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided March 8, 1949No. 47330PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
— While plaintiff was serving a sentence in the Men’s Reformatory at Anamosa he was found insane (dementia praecox; paranoid type) and transferred to the Department for Criminal Insane of said institution. When his sentence expired he was transferred to the Cherokee State Hospital of which defendant is acting superintendent.
Those proceedings were pursuant to certain sections of chapter 246, Code of 1946. The original transfer to the Reformatory Department for Insane was based on the result of an examination by Dr. R. A. Stewart, Superintendent of the Independence State Hospital (section…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Phillips v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- DowdellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Estabrook v. KingCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1941
- State v. TalericoSupreme Court of Iowa · 1940
- County of Black Hawk v. SpringerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1882
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Gottschalk v. SueppelSupreme Court of Iowa · 1966
- Spurbeck v. StattonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1960
- Doyle v. KahlSupreme Court of Iowa · 1951
- Wall v. County Board of Education of Johnson CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 1957
- B.A.A. v. Chief Medical Officer, University of Iowa HospitalsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1988
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