Little v. Little

OPINION

CADENA, Chief Justice.

Anne Little, who has been adjudged incompetent, appeals through her attorney ad litem from an order of the probate court of Guadalupe County authorizing her mother and guardian, Margaret Little, to consent to a surgical procedure involving the removal of a kidney from Anne’s body for the purpose of transplanting such kidney into the body of Anne’s younger brother, Stephen, who is suffering from endstage renal disease.

On August 8, 1978, Anne, then aged 14, was declared to be of unsound mind and her mother, appellee here, was appointed guardian of the person and of…