Court Opinion

ID: 3602958
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 23:49:04.557274+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:25:58.072561
License: Public Domain

I concur in the opinion of Judge HAIGHT The State as parenspatriæ is authorized to legislate for the protection of children. As to an adult (except possibly in the case of a contagious disease which would affect the health of others) I think there is no power to prescribe what medical treatment he shall receive, and that he is entitled to follow his own election, whether that election be dictated by religious belief or other considerations.
PARKER, Ch. J., BARTLETT, VANN, CULLEN and WERNER, JJ., concur; MARTIN, J., not voting.
Order reversed, etc. *Page 213