Legal Opinion
Matter of Gordy
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Decided December 30, 1994No. C.M. 7428PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ALLEN, Chancellor.
Pending is an application for the appointment of a guardian of the person of Anna M. Gordy, a 96 year-old resident of the Emily P. Bissell Hospital. The petitioner is James Davis, the elder of Mrs. Gordy’s two children. Mr. Davis seeks his designation as guardian so that he may be legally enabled to deny to the Bissell Hospital consent to the surgical insertion in his mother’s abdomen of a gastric feeding tube. Based upon a living will that Mrs. Gordy executed a few years ago, and on her statements over the years and currently, Mr. Davis believes that his mother does…
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