Myers Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

The Orphans’ Court of Lancaster County, under the authority of the Incompetents’ Estates’ Act of 1955, 1 declared Dr. Don M. Myers legally incompetent and appointed as his guardian the Fulton National Bank of Lancaster, Pa. From that decree Dr. Myers filed this appeal.

Dr. Myers, aged 83 years, is a resident of Lancaster. The incident which sparked the institution of this incompetency proceeding was a robbery which occurred on May 17, 1958. Around midnight on that date three men waylaid Dr. Myers on his porch, tied him up and took from his home…