Alvord v. Alvord

The real purpose of this application for the appointment of a guardian of the defendant is not quite apparent from the record. True, she was eighty-eight years old, and her health such as is usually enjoyed by persons of that age. But, barring occasional forgetfulness, her faculties seem toi have been unimpaired. No circumstances were detailed by any witness indicative of mental unsoundness. If she consulted 'her neighbors concerning the management of her business in preference to her own son, she had the perfect right to do- so-. No undue influence appears to have heen exerted, and she…