Ryman's Case

Opinion by Kelleb, P. J.,

On July 12, 1938 George Ryman, then seventy-seven years of age, was committed to the Danville State Hospital upon the affidavit of two physicians, under the Mental Health Act of July 11, 1923, P. L. 998, 50 PS §1 et seq. He was then a widower with eleven children living. His wife had died a few months before. He was the owner of two dairy farms, valued with the farm equipment, farm machinery, implements, cattle and livestock at $25,000, and had deposits in four banks aggregating $17,763.

Fifteen years before, he had been committed to the same hospital also on the…