New England Theatres, Inc. v. Olympia Theatres, Inc.

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• opining that potential ward must be personally served notice because only interested party is potential ward, and they should merely need personal notice to prompt their presence and desire for an immediate hearing (citing Evans v. Johnson, 19 S.E. 623, 624-25 (W. Va. 1894))
• “The jurisdiction ... to appoint guardians for insane and incompetent persons is derived from the statute, and in order to obtain such jurisdiction it must affirmatively appear that the essential provisions of the statute were complied with.”

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