Wehmeier v. Young

This is an appeal from a dismissal in circuit court of a summary proceeding under the statute, 1 brought by the guardian of a mentally incompetent to recover possession of land. A former guardian of the incompetent put the defendant, the alleged common-law wife, into possession. The property in question, a 2-family house, was purchased by the former guardian for her ward’s estate with proceeds of a workman’s compensation redemption, the injury for which resulted in the appellant ward’s incompetency. On July 23, 1958, the ward was committed to Ypsilanti State Hospital where he has been…