Mayeux v. Mayeux

TATE, Judge.

This is an appeal by Dandy J. Mayeux, through an attorney, from a judgment of the Avoyelles Parish district court ordering his interdiction upon the petition of his wife, who was appointed his curatrix. The record shows without contradiction that the defendant is mentally incompetent and has been confined since 1955 in the United States Veterans Administration Hospital in Gulfport, Mississippi, because of a chronic mental illness.

The principal contention of this appeal is that the Avoyelles district court lacked jurisdiction over the defendant’s person, although he is legally…