In re the alleged lunacy of Lindsley

The Chancellor.

The first commission in the nature of a writ de lunático mquirendo was issued in this matter in 1885, and returned in July of that year, the return being, that at the time of taking the inquisition Mrs. Lindsley was of unsound mind, and totally incapable of transacting her own business affairs; that she did not enjoy lucid intervals, and that she had been in the same state of lunacy for three years and upwards. Afterwards, upon the petition of Mrs. Lindsley, the inquisition thus returned was set aside, because the chancellor was in doubt, in point of fact, as to the correctness…