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236 Mich. 478

210 N.W 498

In Re Salloum

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided October 22, 1926

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1926-10-22

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently February 1931

1 state decisions

Relies on Smith v. Wayne Probate Judge

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Decided 1926-10-22

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¶1On June 12, 1923, Agnes Salloum, 18 years of age, was adjudged a feeble-minded person and committed to the Michigan Home and Training School at Lapeer, by the probate court for Wayne county, Michigan. Thereafter, on petition of her mother, proceedings were regularly taken under Act No. 285, Pub. Acts 1923, and on May 29, 1926, an order was entered by the Wayne probate court providing for her sterilization by the operation of salpingectomy. *479 From this order her guardian ad litem, Fred M. Butzel, appealed to the circuit court claiming that the act under which the proceedings were had is unconstitutional. On the hearing, the order of the probate court was affirmed. It is here sought by writ of error to review the judgment of the circuit court.

¶2The record presents only constitutional objections to the act. The same questions were before this court and were disposed of adversely to the defendant's claim inSmith v. Wayne Probate Judge, 231 Mich. 409.

¶3The judgment is affirmed.

¶4SHARPE, STEERE, and CLARK, JJ., concurred with McDONALD, J.

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