Johnson v. Schoch

Citations

• 85 Kan. 837
• 118 P. 696
• 1911 Kan. LEXIS 154

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Insane Persons — Discharged from, Hospital — Rights of Citizenship. A person adjudged to be insane and committed to a state hospital for the insane, who was afterward discharged from the hospital as improved, is not, by reason of such discharge, entitled to the entry of an order restoring him to his rights as a citizen.</p> <p>2. - Same. Only such patients as have been discharged from the hospital as cured, or are not insane, are entitled to an order of restoration.</p> <p>3. -Same. The term “discharged as improved” is not the equivalent of “discharged as cured” within the meaning of the latter term as used in section 8484 of the General Statutes of 1909.</p>