In Re Johnson

Joseph B. Johnson, a man of over sixty-three years of age, is a hopeless lunatic and has been such for over thirty years. His estate is of the value of upwards of $226,000 and the income therefrom was last year in excess of $12,000 per annum. The expense of maintenance of said lunatic has not exceeded the sum of approximately $2,500 per annum, leaving a surplus of income of $9,500, which has continually accumulated and become a part of the corpus of the estate.

The petitioner Mary J. Wilson and the petitioner Jerome B. Johnson are the next of kin of the lunatic. They each claim to be in…