In Re O'Neil

Petitioner, a former soldier, is detained, as an insane person, in the United States veterans’ bureau hospital at Camp Custer. By writ of habeas corpus we commanded the hospital authorities to give the reason for such detention. By return of the medical officer we are informed that petitioner is held as a private patient by virtue of an order of the probate court for the county of Wayne. By writ of certiorari we have before us the proceedings had in the probate court, and find manifest jurisdictional error therein, rendering the adjudication wholly void. i

We need point out but one fatal…