State Ex Rel. Monchecourt v. Vigo Circuit Court

Relatrix has filed petition for writ of prohibition and mandate asking that respondent court be restrained from allegedly exceeding its jurisdiction in a certain probate proceeding in respondent court in which relatrix was declared to be incompetent and respondent Ebert Snoddy was appointed her guardian, and asking that the judgment and orders entered in said proceedings be vacated and set aside.

Relatrix’s petition in substance alleges that she is a widow, 59 years of age, and that on December 9, 1958, she was confined at a hospital, was called upon by her brother, Ebert Snoddy and wife, and…