Tappy v. Kilpatrick

This appeal was brought directly to this court because it involves the constitutionality of two sections added to the act of March 26, 1874, to revise the law in relation to idiots, lunatics, drunkards and spendthrifts, which constituted chapter 86 of the Revised Statutes of 1874. The act was amended in 1919, (Laws of 1919, p. 592,) and among other changes the following two sections were added to it:

“Sec. 53. If any conservator appointed pursuant to this act or any other person interested in the ward or his estate, or any other person, shall state upon oath, to any county court, that he…