University of Louisville v. Metcalfe

Opinion of the Court by;

Judge Clay

Reversing.

Several years ago E. N. Metcalfe, a Methodist minister, was adjudged of unsound mind by the Henderson county court and committed to the Western State Hospital at Hopkinsville. Thereafter his wife, Mrs. Laura Metcalfe, continued to reside with her daughter and son-in-law at Henderson until the year 1921, when she moved with them to Evansville, Indiana. At the time of her husband’s commitment she gave her address at Henderson, with the street number, and after that she communicated occasionally with the superintendent of the hospital, and several…