Converse v. Department of Mental Hygiene

Helen M. Converse, removed guardian, appeals from an order entered after a hearing on her final account, surcharging her $7,415.90.

The issues raised herein have their genesis in the establishment in 1941 of a guardianship for Ploma C. Joslin, incompetent, presently confined in Camarillo State Hospital, and subsequent difficulties in the administration of her estate. Since appellant, in her final account, sought to have the probate court review items in accounts long since settled, and determine her personal claim to most of the estate assets, we set forth a fairly detailed account of her…