Ward v. Compton
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Galveston County; Clay S. Briggs, Judge. Separate applications by Mrs. Bettie C. Ward and Eugene Compton, praying to be appointed guardian of the person and estate of Mrs. Matilda Compton. From a judgment appointing Eugene Compton as guardian, Mrs. Ward appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
On April 4, 1916, Mrs. Bettie C. Ward, appellant, and Eugene Compton, appellee, brother and sister, separately filed their respective petitions in the county court of Galveston county, Tex., praying for letters of guardianship of the person and estate of their mother, Mrs. Matilda Compton, who was alleged by both petitions to be a person of unsound mind. There had been no prior determination by a jury that she was of unsound mind, as required by articles 4238 to 4242, inclusive, of chapter 16, title 64, Vernon’s Sayles’ Statutes. On the same day the applications were filed the county judge…
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