Deaton v. Hale

STERNBERG, Justice.

This is a suit for an accounting instituted by the committee for an incompetent person against the incompetent’s attorney-in-fact (wife). The committee seeks restoration of the incompetent’s real and personal property transferred to or disposed of by the attorney-in-fact.

George and Minnie Hale were married in 1965, he a childless widower, 75 years of age, and she, 73 years of age, was blessed with both children and grandchildren. On September 18, 1970, while hospitalized at the Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, George executed a power of attorney naming and…