In Re Estate of Lamont

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Cross-petitioners Lyda and Roy Holliday appeal from the appointment of petitioner Virginia White as conservator of the person and estate of Everett Lamont, incompetent. No objection was made to the adjudication of incompetency. Appellants contend that the court abused its discretion in appointing a Mrs. White, his deceased wife’s niece as conservator rather than the nominee of the incompetent’s closest but out-of-state relatives; and that the court abused its discretion in appointing as conservator a person whose own…