Lester v. Pilkinton

This application for a temporary writ.of prohibition has been presented to me during the court’s summer recess. The petitioner, Mae Thomas Lester, asks that the respondents, who are the judges of the Clark Probate Court, be prohibited from making any further orders in a guardianship proceeding in which this petitioner is the assertedly incompetent person. It is the petitioner’s contention that this guardianship is void (a) for want of notice to her when the proceedings were originally instituted and (b) for want of a judicial finding that she is in fact incompetent.

On November 23, 1951, when…