In re the Guardianship of the Estate Bayer

Citations

• 101 Wash. 694
• 172 P. 842
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 897

Syllabus

<p>Insane Persons—Guardianship—Incompetency—Evidence—Sufficiency. It is not necessary, that a person be insane or an idiot, in order to authorize the appointment of a guardian because of incompetency to manage business affairs; and it is error to deny an appointment, where it appears that a widow, possessed of considerable means, had been taken care of in several private sanitariums on account of mental incompetency, and had been committed to and paroled from the state asylum for the insane, had sold a farm worth $45,000 to $50,000 for less than half its value, and acted irrationally and suffered from delusions; since an improvident business transaction should be taken into consideration along with other evidence.</p>