Chavannes v. Priestley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. Josiah Given, Judge. The plaintiff is an attorney by profession, and the defendant is a physician. Both are residents of the city of Des Moines.
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Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. Josiah Given, Judge. The plaintiff is an attorney by profession, and the defendant is a physician. Both are residents of the city of Des Moines. In September, 1888, the plaintiff filed his petition, alleging that the defendant said of and concerning him : “Chavannes is insane; Chavannes is not in his right mind [ meaning that the plaintiff was crazy, and unfit to attend to his business as an attorney].” The defendant’s answer is in four divisions, averring, in substance: First, that the’ plaintiff had been by the commissioners of insanity of Polk county…
1Opinion of the CourtG-banoee, J.
1. Constitutional law: due process: adjucation of insanity. — The range of the arguments embraces many questions that do not arise upon the record before us. The district court held the plea in abatement good. If it erred, the cause must be remanded for further proceedings, and its judgment had on other questions presented in argument before we are to consider them. *318The commissioners’ record before us unmistakably shows that inquiry w;as instituted upon a complaint duly made, and the plaintiff adjudged insane, and by the commissioners’ order he was placed in the insane hospital for care and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- County of Black Hawk v. SpringerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1882
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