Thresa Williams and Jennie L. Richards v. John Dalton, Wallace Waalkes, Jr., Dr. Roy A. Morter and Dr. Clarence E. Schrier

STEWART, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from the district court’s dismissal of an action for declaratory and injunctive relief under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983. The complaint alleged that appellant Richards had in 1947 been committed by a Michigan probate court to the Kalamazoo, Michigan, State Hospital and since detained there without having been afforded an adequate hearing in contravention of her rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and the statutes of Michigan. Two state probate judges (appellees Dalton and Waalkes), neither of whom had originally committed appellant, and two…