In Re Myrtle Davis

On July 31, 1935, Myrtle Davis, a divorced woman 36 years of age, was confined in the Wayne county jail and on the same day Minnie Babcock, her sister, filed a petition in the probate court of Wayne county to have Myrtle Davis admitted to an insane asylum. Following the filing of this petition, an order was entered appointing A. C. LaBine and James M. Stanton, physicians, to examine said Myrtle Davis. A citation was also issued by the probate court to Myrtle Davis, Amanda Santag, her mother, Eugene Podschlne, her brother, Emma Todd, her sister, and to Henry Behrendt, sheriff of Wayne county,…