Department of Public Welfare Ex Rel. Central State Hospital v. Allen

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

Reversing.

Benjamin F. Allen, a World War veteran, became mentally incompetent by reason of his service in the Army in the late war, and on March 21, 1927, was adjudged to be of unsound mind and was committed by the Jefferson circuit court to the Central State Hospital at Lakeland, Ky. He remained in that institution continuously from March 21, 1927, until June 30, 1927, when he was released. Later he was committed by the Meade circuit court to the Western State Hospital at Hopkinsville, Ky., where he remained as an inmate from November 22, 1929, until…