McCreery's Admr. v. McCreery's Committee

Opinion of the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner

Reversing.

In tlie year 1895 Hawes McCreery was adjudged of unsound mind in the Daviess circuit court, and placed in the Western Kentucky Lunatic Asylum. At the .same time, the Central Trust Company of Owensboro was appointed and qualified as his committee, and continued as such until his death in December, 1916, when R. M. Stuart was appointed his administrator. McCreery remained in the asylum for about ten years, and was then removed to the Beechhurst Sanitarium at Louisville, where he was maintained át an expense of about $800.00 a…