Sons and parents

[Susan Higginbotham]

(01-14-2015 03:25 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(01-14-2015 02:37 PM)Gene C Wrote:  I don't have a law degree...

But you did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

(01-14-2015 02:53 PM)Houmes Wrote:  His family acquired a lot of it, and he gifted me with Mary's rocking chair.

Now that is neat!



I do have a question for our attorneys...Susan or Herb:

Would it been legal for Robert to physically add the following to the pre-printed Application To Try The Question Of Insanity:

After the words "in the Cook County Hospital or the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane" to write "or private sanitarium."

OR

Cross out the words "in the Cook County Hospital or the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane"
and substitute "in a private sanitarium."

I guess what I am asking is could (legally) the pre-printed form have been modified by Robert prior to his formal filing of it? (I realize he himself didn't fill out the form - I think it was done by a clerk.)

Just guessing, I imagine the person who completed the form could have added "or private sanitarium," but its exclusion doesn't seem to have been problematic. It certainly didn't prevent Mary from being admitted to a private asylum.

I personally doubt that anyone wanted to put Mary in the state hospital, or gave it serious consideration for any length of time. On a purely practical level, I doubt that the state hospital itself wanted her, as a former First Lady could have hardly been treated like an ordinary patient and would have required special accommodations and privileges, which were easy enough to give at Dr. Patterson's small, family-run establishment but would have been problematic at a large state hospital.