Troutman v. Troutman

Nichols, Justice.

The petition filed in the superior court seeking to have the adjudication finding James Floyd Troutman to be insane set aside is based upon the fact that ten days notice was not given to him and that the application failed to have attached to it an affidavit verified by a physician that he was violently insane and likely to do himself violence.

The Act of 1950 (Ga. L. 1950, p. 14) removed the requirement from Code Ann. § 49-604 that such an affidavit of verification be attached to the application for the appointment of a lunacy commission in order to waive the ten days notice…