Horton v. Horton

(after stating the facts as above). Appellants seem to have overlooked provisions of the statute applicable to the proceeding they commenced, and to have treated same as controlled, 'instead, by the provisions of articles 4238 to 4255, forming chapter 16, tit. 64, Vernon’s Sayles’ Statutes, and both the county and district courts seem to have adopted th,at view of the proceeding. As we understand the provisions of that chapter, they do not apply where, as here, a person presents an application to be appointed guardian of a person of unsound mind; but they apply only when tbe county judge, no…