Davis v. Carter

ROBERTS, Justice.

The issue here is whether a decree appointing a curator for the estate of Mrs. Annie B. Davis, an alleged incompetent, is proper. We agree with the Chancellor that the appointment was “proper, appropriate and reasonably necessary” for her best interests.

Under the statute pursuant to which this appointment was made, it was not necessary that a person be actually insane or mentally ill before a curator could be appointed to manage his or her estate. A curator could be appointed when a person had “become physically incapacitated * * or so mentally or physically defective by…