Converse
Converse v. Department of Mental Hygiene
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Lillie, J.
Helen M. Converse, removed guardian, appeals from an order entered after a hearing on her final account, surcharging her $7,415.90.
The issues raised herein have their genesis in the establishment in 1941 of a guardianship for Ploma C. Joslin, incompetent, presently confined in Camarillo State Hospital, and subsequent difficulties in the administration of her estate. Since appellant, in her final account, sought to have the probate court review items in accounts long since settled, and determine her personal claim to most of the estate assets, we set forth a fairly detailed account of her administration of the estate. No reporter’s transcript has been filed. The record on appeal includes two clerk’s transcripts, one containing 393 pages, and one heretofore filed in a prior appeal of 122 pages.
M. E. Joslin, her husband, was Ploma’s first guardian. Upon his resignation, her mother, Alameda Converse, was appointed on September 14, 1942. During her tenure, and on July 2, 1945, Alameda executed a gift deed to real property (hereinafter called the “duplex”) to Ploma, which was recorded July 5, 1945, which was later taken into the incompetent’s *334 estate as an asset. A month later…