Anderson v. Smith

One of such issues in the petition is to the effect that Mrs. M. C. Anderson at the time of the commitment was a resident of Irwin County and not of Wilcox County where the lunacy proceedings were instituted and adjudicated. In Shea v. Gehan, 70 Ga. App. 229, 232 (28 S. E. 2d, 181), the court laid down this principle: “Neither the Code, § 49-601, nor the act of 1929, pp. 248 et seq., as amended by the act of 1937, pp. 284 et seq., and codified as §§ 49-801 et seq., limits the power of the ordinary over insane person who are citizens of Georgia and resident in the county, but such statutes are…