Moyer v. Huffstutler

RAWLS, Judge.

Appellant Moyer, by this appeal, challenges an order adjudging him incompetent.

On January 27, 1972, while appellant was a patient in Room 521, Riverside Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida, his niece 1 filed a petition alleging that appellant was believed to be incompetent, “and the rjature of his *287disability is .both mental and physical.”2 A copy of the petition was not served on appellant. On the day the petition was filed the court appointed a committee of two physicians and a lay person to examine appellant and ascertain his mental and physical condition. On the 31st day of…