Stone v. Conrad
Supreme Court of Iowa
There was an application to this court by plaintiff for a writ of certiorari commanding the defendants to certify up certain proceedings on their part, of which complaint was made. The writ issued, return was made thereto, and it is upon this record we are required to pass. —
1Opinion of the CourtWaterman, J.
— The facts, as they appear in the returns made by the defendants, are neither many nor complicated. On the fifth day of January, 1898, the plaintiff, J. W. Stone, shot and killed one Frank Kahler, in the city of Des Moines. On the tenth of that month, the father of Stone, acting through an attorney, handed the clerk of the district court a written application, signed by himself, and duly verified, charging that said Stone was insane, and asking that the commissioners of insanity investigate and take action upon the case. Nothing further was done in the matter at this time. The next fact of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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