Monds v. Dugger

Mr. Chief Justicie, Gree®

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This bill was filed by brothers and sisters of a mental incompetent against his guardian to have the latter appropriate a certain part of the incompetent’s income to the support of these collateral relatives. A demurrer was filed by the guardian, which the chancellor sustained and dismissed the bill. Complainants appealed.

TRe bill averred that the incompetent was an unmarried man; that he had formerly been in the United States Army; that he had become totally disabled, permanently insane, and was confined in a Government hospital…