Coleman v. Commissioners of the Lunatic Asylum
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Error to the Fayette CiEOurT. Chancery. Case 47. The case stated. The Circuit Court of any county where a lunatic may be found going at large, and who is ungovernable, has jurisdiction to have an inquest into his state of mind and funds. —And the same Court has jurisdiction to make the proper orders appropriating his estate to his maintenance.
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Error to the Fayette CiEOurT. Chancery. Case 47. The case stated. The Circuit Court of any county where a lunatic may be found going at large, and who is ungovernable, has jurisdiction to have an inquest into his state of mind and funds. —And the same Court has jurisdiction to make the proper orders appropriating his estate to his maintenance. Where a lunatic ted atestatePPex^nSp'ellb®0n°u0rí bill by attorney for Commonwealth,may de“hr®e mCommon-his estate, against jhis^estate," ^ ofSt]ceep?n¿ such^ in I different h°lwhmh°the^ní p°ocesSsbe" ing served on the couniy where siut 1S broughl" The…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Marshall
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This Writ of error is prosecuted for the reversal of a decree of the Fayette Circuit Court, that George Coleman pay to the Commissioners of the Lunatic Asylum, out of the profits of the estate of Henry Coleman, a lunatic, $669 16, for the support and maintenance furnished to the said Henry for about five years, during which he had remained in the Asylum, and been maintianed as a pauper, at the charge of the Commonwealth. '
The proceeding was commenced by a petition in the nature of a bill in chancery, filed in the names of the Commissioners of…
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