Johnson's Committee v. Mitchell

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Miller

Affirming.

On April 16th, 1890, James K. Johnson, of Pike County, was.adjudged to be a person of unsound mind and a lunatic, in the Pike County Court, and was sent to the asylum at Lexington, Ky., for treatment. Johnson liad a family consisting of a wife and five children, and he then owned about 800 acres of land in Pike County. He remained in the asylum at Lexington until August, 1895, when he was discharged and returned to his home in Pike County, without any inquest having been held to determine his sanity.

*383Subsequently, on January 30,1897, Johnson…