In Re: Wood

Lovins, Judge:

Florence Dowden Wood and Rolena Dowden Core filed their petition in the Circuit Court of Marion County, to have their mother, Ruth T. Dowden, declared a mental defective, under the provisions of Code, 27-3-13. An answer was filed by Mrs. Dowden. denying the allegations of the petition. After hearing evidence in support of and against the petition, the trial court entered an order dismissing the petition and finding that petitioners failed to show that Ruth T. Dowden was insane or a mental defective as “intended and provided” in the Code section above mentioned. A writ of error…