Case ID: pa_418/html/0185-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Bell,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Urquhart Estate.
    Argued April 26, 1965.
    Before Bell, C. J., Musmanno, Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O’Brien and Roberts, JJ.
    .Decree affirmed.
    
      Isidor Ostroff, with him C. Clinton Fogwell, Jr., and Ostroff & Lawler, for appellant.
    
      Robert S. Cawthrop, with him Cawthrop and Creenwood, for appellee.
    May 25, 1965:
   Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,

The Incompetents’ Estates Act of 1955, P. L. 1154, re-enacted and amended July 11, 1957, provides, under “Definitions”: “(3) ‘Incompetent’ means a person who, because of mental infirmities of old age, mental illness, mental deficiency, or inebriety, is unable to manage his property, or is liable to dissipate it or become the victim of designing persons.” See also: Coulter Estate, 406 Pa. 402, 405, 406, 178 A. 2d 742.

Judge MacElree carefully analyzed the conflicting testimony, and after applying the test and proof of mental incompetency laid down in Coulter Estate, supra, and Myers Estate, 395 Pa. 459, 150 A. 2d 525, (a) found and adjudged appellant incompetent, and (b) appointed a guardian for his estate. We have examined the record and find no clear abuse of discretion or error of law. Cf. Pearlman Appeal, 400 Pa. 350, 352, 163 A. 2d 530.

Decree affirmed; costs to be paid out of the estate.