State Ex Rel. Watland v. Hurley

We are unable to agree with the conclusion reached in the opinion prepared by Mr. Justice Terrell in this case.

We do not think that the judgment of this Court in the matter of the Guardianship of Frances Kathryn Watland and Bernice Loreen Watland, minors, styled Andrew R. Watland, appellant, v. Myrtle K. Hurley, appellee, is decisive of the issues in the present case. ‘

The petition shows that while petitioner was laboring under the disability of a mental derangement and while he was confined in a sanitarium in the City of Richmond, one John L. Brin was appointed Guardian of the person and…