Interdiction of Escat

ROGERS, Justice.

Defendant appeals from a judgment declaring her to be an interdict and a per son mentally incapable of taking care of either her person or her property. Plaintiff is defendant’s niece with whom she is living. Defendant was personally cited, and on her failure to answer, the court appointed a curator ad hoc with whom the case was contradictorily tried.

The appeal poses the question of whether there is sufficient evidence in the record to justify the judgment of interdiction.

Only two witnesses were heard on the trial of the case. One of the witnesses is an eminent psychiatrist,…