Guardianship of Walsh

VALLÉE, J.

Appeal by Bertha I. Walsh, the paternal grandmother of Michael James Walsh, a 3-year-old minor, from an order appointing respondent, Bdith Jaeger, his maternal grandmother, guardian of his person and estate.

On November 19, 1948, Major George Walsh and his wife, Betty Jaeger Walsh, disappeared while on a flight by airplane over the jungles of British Guiana. No trace of them has been discovered nor has either been heard from. They left surviving them two children, Michael, the minor whose guardianship is here involved, who lived with his parents in British Guiana, and George, aged 5,…