Winters Natl Bank & Trust Co. v. Shields

OPINION

By WISEMAN, J.

This is an action for a declaratory judgment. The decedent, Pleasant S. Hill, died on the 11th day of January, 1938, as the result of a gun shot wound intentionally and feloniously inflicted upon him by his wife, Etta J. G. Hill, who was indicted for murder in the second degree. Before she was brought to trial, at a sanity hearing she was found to be then insane and was committed to the Lima State Hospital, where she is now confined. The indictment for murder has not been quashed, and her trial is made contingent upon her restoration to sanity. A guardian of her estate…