Legal Opinion

Gower

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided March 3, 1915PublishedCited by 5 opinions

On motion and exceptions by respondent. This is a petition to the Probate Court of Androscoggin County, asking for the appointment of W. H. Judkins as guardian of Sarah C. Gower. Upon notice and hearing thereon, said Judkins was appointed guardian of said Sarah C. Gower. From this decree, an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of Probate.

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On motion and exceptions by respondent. This is a petition to the Probate Court of Androscoggin County, asking for the appointment of W. H. Judkins as guardian of Sarah C. Gower. Upon notice and hearing thereon, said Judkins was appointed guardian of said Sarah C. Gower. From this decree, an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of Probate. In the Supreme Court of Probate, a hearing was had on the appeal and it was ordered that the decree of the Judge of Probate, appointing W. H. Judkins, guardian, be affirmed. To this decree affirming the decree of the Judge of Probate, respondent excepted,…

1Opinion of the CourtHanson, J.

This was a petition to the Probate Court of Androscoggin County asking for the appointment of W. H. Judkins as guardian of the appellant. Upon due notice and hearing thereon it was decreed “that W. H. Judkins be appointed guardian of said Sarah C. Gower, and that letters of guardianship issue to him.”

From this decree an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of Probate. Hearing was had on the appeal and the following decree entered by the presiding Judge:

‘ ‘This appeal is from the appointment of a guardian of the appellant, as a person of unsound mind, who by reason of infirmity and mental…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. MitchellSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1934
  2. First Auburn Trust Co. v. Estate of BakerSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1936
  3. ChaplinSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1935
  4. Simmons, In re Estate of HooperSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1940
  5. In Re Child of Mindy P.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2026

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