Hunt ex rel. Phillips v. Hunt

0ABNEY, J

The appellant, Mrs Dorothy Ann Hunt Phillips, brought suit as next friend of her brother, Charles Emerson Hunt, Jr, a non compos mentis, to annul his marriage to the defendant, Marie Sommers Hunt. The marriage was solemnized on July 18, 1958, at Belle-vue Baptist Church Chapel in Memphis, Tennessee. The bill for annulment was filed November 21, 1963. His Honor the Trial Judge, without a jury, held: (1) That Mrs. Phillips as next friend had no standing to bring the *687suit since there was a legal guardian, defendant A. Y. McDowell, authorized to act in behalf of the non compos mentis,…