McLean v. Burkinshaw

This appeal grows out of proceedings in the District Court concerning the insanity of Edward B. McLean. Cf. In re Edward B. McLean, Lunatic, 67 Wash. Law Rep. 251. He was adjudicated insane in Maryland in 1933, and has since been confined there, and an ancillary committee has had charge of his estate in the District of Columbia. In the course of the present proceedings here, George B. Fraser filed an answer as attorney for McLean. On motion of the ancillary committee this answer was struck, on the ground that Fraser had no authority to represent McLean. Fraser, in his own name and McLean’s,…