Legal Opinion

Lusson Petition

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided October 20, 1959No. 2126 of 1959PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Lefever, J.,

This matter is before the court upon a “Petition for Adjudication of Competency” filed by Dorothea Lusson, who was adjudged an incompetent by decree of the County Judge’s Court for Lake County, Fla., dated April 18, 1953.

A hearing was held upon this petition on August 19, 1959. The pertinent evidence then adduced is as follows:

Dorothea Lusson was a domiciliary of Florida for many years. She was twice committed to the Florida *795State Hospital at Chattahoochee, Fla., for the periods September 14, 1938, to August 18, 1939, and April 6, 1953, to July 16, 1954. The diagonsis was…

2Cases cited9 opinions

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