Lake v. Cameron

MEMORANDUM

LEONARD P. WALSH, District Judge.

Late in September, 1962, Catherine Lake, patient-petitioner herein, was found by a member of the Metropolitan Police Department while she was wandering in the vicinity of Fifth and E Streets, N. W., and was taken to the Women’s Bureau of the Police Department.

On October 3, 1962, civil commitment proceedings were instituted by the filing of a petition by the Police Department. This petition, signed by Detective Maude B. Knight, stated as grounds for the petition that Mrs. Lake “ * * * was looking for a place to stay, without funds. She cannot remember…