Tucker v. American Surety Co. of New York

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Section 49-601 of the Code vests jurisdiction in the ordinaries of the several counties for the appointment of guardians for insane persons. Section 49-604 provides for the procedure where a person is liable to have a guardian appointed or is subject to be committed to the Milledgeville State Hospital. Hence, it may not always follow that a person eligible to have a guardian will be, at the same time, eligible for admission to the Milledgeville State Hospital. A person might be violently insane, likely to do bodily injury, and have such an estate as to be…