State ex rel. Blaisdell v. Billings
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by John S. Billings, Sheriff of Otter Tail County, from an order of the District Court of that County, made by R. H. Mar-den, Court Commissioner, June 26,1893, discharging from his custody, Maria J. Blaisdell. On June 3, 1893, an information was filed in the Probate Court of Otter Tail County, stating that Maria J. Blaisdell of Pelican Bapids in that County was then insane and needing care and treatment and that it was dangerous for her to be at large.
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Appeal by John S. Billings, Sheriff of Otter Tail County, from an order of the District Court of that County, made by R. H. Mar-den, Court Commissioner, June 26,1893, discharging from his custody, Maria J. Blaisdell. On June 3, 1893, an information was filed in the Probate Court of Otter Tail County, stating that Maria J. Blaisdell of Pelican Bapids in that County was then insane and needing care and treatment and that it was dangerous for her to be at large. Davis Burbank, Judge of that Court, made an order directing F. Ray and J. 'IT. Corliss, two practising physicians of that county, to…
1OpinionCollins, J.
Upon reargument, January 17, 1894. At the former hearing of this case the attention of the court was not called to the fact that the provisions of the Probate Code (Laws 1889, ch. 46, subch. 14) relating to the commitment of insane persons to the state hospitals had been wholly superseded by certain sections of Laws 1893, ch. 5. Assuming that the provisions of the Probate Code on this subject were still in force, the court fell into the error of holding that the law had not been complied with, that there had been a complete departure from the requirements of the statute, and that the warrant…
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