In re the Guardianship of Hitchcock

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

ROBERTSON, C.J. (Perry, J., dissenting.)

The facts here involved are, in substance, as follows: On December 2nd 1901, the will of the late Edward N. Hitchcock, deceased, was duly admitted to probate by the circuit judge of the fourth judicial circuit; that in said will the testator named his wife as guardian of the person and property of their daughter, Hildreth Castle Hitchcock, to whom he had bequeathed a portion of the proceeds of a certain life insurance policy; that on December 5th, Clare Fassett Hitchcock, widow of the testator, now Mrs. E. H. Moses, was, upon her…