Galbreath v. Black

The appellant, Margaret A. Galbreath, filed a petition in the court below, under the provisions of section 2545, R. S. 1881, wherein she represented to the court that Mary Black, an inhabitant of Kosciusko county, was a person of unsound mind and incapable of managing her own estate. Afterwards Mary Black appeared in court, in person and by counsel, and the clerk of the court, as required by the statute, filed an answer in denial of the facts set forth in such petition; which issue was tried by a jury, empanelled under the direction of the court. The record shows that after a portion of the…