Schultz v. Brown

HALE, Justice.

W. O. Schultz filed this suit in the district court of Dallas county on August 25, 3939, in the form of a habeas corpus proceeding against M. I. Brown as Superintendent of the Austin State School, alleging that his minor daughter, Elizabeth, was being illegally restrained of her liberty by virtue of a judgment rendered in the county court of Dallas county on May 22, 1936, adjudging her to be a feeble-minded person. Relator further alleged that “the law covéring feeble-minded persons is unconstitutional,” and that the restraint of his daughter was illegal because she .was denied…