Edge v. Edge

Clark, Judge.

This appeal complains of a jury verdict declaring an 87-year-old father to be mentally competent and capable of managing his affairs. The transcript of the two-day trial makes clear the petitioner, as one of four sons, acted for his brothers in seeking to have a guardianship on the basis that it would be in the best interest of the father. Despite the family disagreement the case was tried without acrimony or rancor. The case comes to us from the denial of a motion for judgment notwithstanding verdict or in the alternative a motion for new trial.

1. Appellant’s principal…