Brooke's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

On July 26, 1920, the wife of John E. Brooke presented a petition asking for the appointment of a guardian for his estate on the ground that he had become feeble-minded, and was unable to take care of his property. The Girard Trust Company was appointed, as prayed for, and since that time has so acted. Brooke, now eighty-five years of age, is still mentally defective, and is confined in the Friends Hospital at Frankford, Philadelphia, where all possible attention is given to him. As a retired officer of the United States Army, he receives a pension of $6,000 per…