Hiett v. Shull
West Virginia Supreme Court
cited 25 Gratt. 865; 1 Jarm. Wills (1880) p. 93, n. JB; 2 J3ouv. Diet. 83, 627 ; 1 Bouv. Diet. 807 ; 19 Am. Bep. 598. cited 94 U. S. 207 ; 11 W. Ya. 584; 20 W. Ya. 254; 23 W. Va. 579 ; 31 W. Ya. 581; 9 W. Ya. 327, 337; 2 Band. 442.
1Opinion of the Court
Holt, 'Judge :
This is a suit in equity, brought in the Circuit Court of Hampshire county, in July, 1888, by Charles N. Hiett, *564committee of Jolm Shaffer, against J. W. Sliull, charging, in substance, that John Shaffer is an old man eighty four years of age, unable to act with any proper and prudent management of his affairs, not able on account of mental imbecility to transact the ordinary affairs of life, to understand their nature and effect, or to have or to exercise any will of his own in relation thereto ; — that on the 10th day of April, 1888, and prior to plaintiff’s appointment as…
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