Grinky v. Wayne Probate Judge
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Wayne; Mandell, J. Mandamus by Joseph Grinky to compel Edgar O. Durfee, probate judge of Wayne county, to proceed to a hearing on a petition for the admission of an alleged insane person to an asylum. From an order denying the writ, relator brings certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
Certiorari to review mandamus proceedings.
April 5, 1904, relator petitioned respondent for an order admitting his wife, Celia Grinky, to an insane asylum. Respondent thereupon set April 8, 1904, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, for hearing said application. At the time set for hearing respondent refused to proceed with the same, because two reputable physicians, appointed by him to examine said Celia Grinky, had reported that she was not insane. One of these reports was not in precise statutory form, but, as it cannot be considered a certificate of insanity, its formal character was, in our…
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