Wilson v. Wair

This is an appeal in a proceeding for a writ of habeas corpus instituted in the circuit court for Umatilla county by the plaintiff, Gloria Wilson, who was then and now is confined in the Eastern Oregon State Hospital as a person mentally ill. She is held there pursuant to an order of commitment made and entered in a commitment proceeding in the Probate Department of the Circuit Court of Multnomah County on the twenty-third day of October, 1956. The defendant, Donald Wair, is the superintendent of the hospital where plaintiff is a patient and is the official custodian of all persons who are…