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PORTER (Probate Judge, Ingham) vs. EDWARDS (Supt. Asylum for Insane)

Michigan Supreme Court1897-10-25
1 McGrath 17024 D. L. N., 706

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Opinion

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To compel respondent to admit to the Asylum at Kalamazoo, as a public charge, one who has been adjudicated an insane person, but who had not gained a settlement in Ingham County, and whose legal residence is unknown. Denied October 25, 1897.

Held, that Act No. 135 Public Acts of 1885, as amended by Act No. 62, P. A. 1887, was repealed by Act No. 44, P. A. 1897, and the latter Act provides that the persons committed must be citizens of the State.