Sangster v. Toledo Manufacturing Co.

Grice, Justice.

At common law insane persons were the particular and peculiar wards of equity. Conway v. Robinson, -Mo.-, 178 S. W. 154. From earliest times imbeciles have been regarded as wards of the chancellor. Upton’s Commit tee v. Bush, 135 Ky. 102 (121 S. W. 1005). See also Buswell’s Law of Insanitj’’, § 35. Courts of general equity jurisdiction within the limits prescribed by the statutory law of the forum, if there be any such law on the subject, have general supervisory authority and jurisdiction of the persons as well as the property of all citizens who are under any legal…