In Re the Guardianship of Burnett

The petitioner filed in the superior court of Stevens county his application to have Velma Hotchkiss discharged as guardian of his estate. The application showed that he had been a patient at the Eastern State hospital, but alleges that he had been released from the hospital and was fully competent to manage his own business. A trial to the court resulted in a denial of petitioner’s application, and he appealed to this court. He assigns as error the action of the trial court in refusing to discharge the guardian and restore him to his estate.

It is the settled law that every person is presumed…