Elwell v. Stone

LESTER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict awarding damages, including punitive in the sum of $41,-824, against appellants for their depletion of the estate of Mary Ghee McKenney, an elderly person lacking mental capacity to manage her own affairs.

In early 1987, Mary McKenney, who had passed her 90th birthday, was found to be lacking in informed consent and in need of assistance in handling her financial affairs by an interdisciplinary team of social workers and a psychiatrist. The report led to the appointment of a curator, the Hon. John Mackey of the…