McKenzie, In re Guardianship of Farnham
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On appeal and exceptions. An appeal from a decree of the Judge of the Probate Court for the county of Piscataquis, made December 5, 1922, relieving one John E. Farnham from guardianship and restoring to him his property. Exceptions also were taken pertaining to the admission of testimony. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPhilbrook, J.
This case arises from proceedings instituted in the Probate Court of Piscataquis County. By a decree of that Court dated September 7, A. D. 1920, John E. Farnham, then past eighty years of age, was adjudged to be a person of unsound mind who, by *153reason of infirmity and mental incapacity, was incompetent to manage his own estate and to protect his rights. By the same decree his son, Elmer J. Farnham, was appointed guardian. The guardian died in May, 1922, and on July 24, A. D. 1922, the ward, declaring himself then to be capable of managing his own estate, and that a guardian was no longer…
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