Bogan v. Arkansas First National Bank

George Rose Smith, Justice.

In February, 1970, J. E. Miller and Marie Wright filed a petition in the Garland probate court, asking that the appellee bank be appointed as guardian of the person and estate of the petitioners’ sister, Ella Carson Bogan, who was asserted to be mentally incompetent. The petition was resisted by the appellant, Mrs. Bogan’s husband. Bogan asserted, first, that his wife was not incompetent, and second, that he rather than the bank should be named guardian if such an appointment were found to be necessary. After a hearing the probate court granted the original petition…