In Re Byran

OPINION

By the Court,

Sanders, J.:

In October, 1923, three separate petitions were filed in the court below, on the probate side thereof, wherein each petitioner sought appointment as guardian of the person and estate of John Robert Byran, an infant two years of age. No issue was joined upon either petition, and the three came on to be heard together and were considered as one proceeding. The mother of the child, Katherine Pearl Byran, a resident of Washoe County, died intestate therein on the 11th day of October, 1923, leaving an insurance policy in the Women’s Benefit Association of the…