Nelson v. Redfield

(dissenting) — March 22, 1939, J. Frank Redfield filed a petition in the superior court of Skagit county alleging that Ethel Nelson was a mentally incompetent person and asked that he be appointed guardian of her estate. A hearing was had upon the petition, after which, April 13, 1939, the court entered an order to the effect that Ethel Nelson was mentally incompetent.

It is the settled law that every person is presumed to be sane and competent, but that, when one is adjudged to be of unsound mind and under guardianship, the presumption arises in favor of the continued exist ence of the…