In Re Schiller

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that test for mental capacity to consent to medical treatment is whether the patient has “sufficient mind to reasonably understand the condition, the nature and effect of the proposed treatment, [and the] attendant risks in pursuing * * * and not pursuing the treatment”
• Hospital petitioned for appointment of guardian to consent to amputation of gangrenous leg of incompetent man
• cousin of incompetent patient appointed special guardian with authority to consent to lifesaving medical treatment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).