Richards v. Elrod

MERRILL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court affirming a judgment of the probate court granting letters of guardianship over the estate of Daisy Elrod Walker, a person who had been adjudged to be of unsound mind.

We have this day reversed the case of Walker v. Elrod, 284 Ala. 32, 221 So.2d 391, a companion case, on the ground that the jury called in the lunacy inquisition was improperly selected and chosen. The effect of such reversal is that Daisy Elrod Walker has not yet been legally determined to be a person of unsound mind. Until that has been properly…