State Ex Rel. Nutter v. MacE

Lovins, Judge:

On the petition of Nancy Nutter and Selina Nutter this Court awarded a write of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum directed to Ruth Mace, who, on August 21, 1947, had been appointed committee for petitioners by the County Court of Wood County, West Virginia.

Petitioners are sisters, aged eighty-one and seventy-nine years, respectively, and resided on a farm jointly owned by them, situated in an isolated section of Roane County, West Virginia. Their residence is located approximately three-fourths of a mile from a public road, and is without modern conveniences relative to heating,…