Estate of Watson

The superior court of Stanislaus County made an order adjudging Sarah A. Watson to he incompetent, and appointing a guardian of her estate. From this order the alleged incompetent appeals.

The principal contention of the appellant is that the evidence is insufficient to support the-finding of incompetency. Our study of the record has satisfied us that there was no substantial testimonyt showing that Mrs. Watson’s mental faculties were impaired to any such extent, if at all, as to justify the court in taking the management of her property out of her hands and subjecting it to the control of a guardian.

Mrs. Watson was a widow, seventy-eight years of age, the mother of six sons and three daughters. She was residing on a six acre tract of land near the city of Modesto. Here she lived with her son, Walter Watson, who was the owner of an adjoining parcel of three acres. Mrs. Watson owned a number of pieces of farming land in the states of North Dakota and Minnesota, of the aggregate value of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Her husband had died some seven years before this proceeding was begun, and for some time after his death her daughter, Mrs. McLain, had lived with her. Mrs.…