In Re Cash

Section 4 of the Lunacy Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, chap. 85, par. 4,) after providing for the issuance of a writ commanding the person who has custody of the person alleged to be insane to produce such person before the court, further provides that, “in no case shall such hearing take place until the person alleged to be insane shall have been notified as the court shall direct.”

In Haines v. Cearlock, 184 Ill. 96, it was said: “The necessity of a notice to the party to be deprived of property or liberty in such a proceeding was declared in Eddy v. People, 15 Ill. 386. In that case, the court,…