Snyder v. Scheerer

The Appellant, Gretchen Smith Snyder, appeals from a December 6, 1991, order of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County denying her petition for habeas corpus to regain custody of her son, Daniel John Smith. The Appellant contends that the lower court erred in concluding that she was medically unfit and in allowing custody to remain with the Appellant’s sister, Nancy H. Scheerer, and her husband Paul E. Scheerer. We agree and reverse the decision of the lower court.

I

The Appellant, presently age forty-three, has suffered repeated episodes of mental illness throughout the past twenty years. In…