LESTER v. PILKINTON

No. 5-821.

282 S.W.2d 590 (1955)

Mae Thomas LESTER, Petitioner, v. James H. PILKINTON and Wesley Howard, Judges, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

August 31, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Ff. Wright, Arkadelphia, for petitioner.

Lookadoo, Gooch & Lookadoo, Arkadelphia, for respondents.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This application for a temporary writ of prohibition has been presented to me during the court's summer recess. The petitioner, Mae Thomas Lester, asks that the respondents, who are the judges of the Clark Probate Court, be prohibited from making any further orders in a guardianship proceeding in which this petitioner is the assertedly incompetent person. It is the petitioner's contention that this guardianship is void (a) for want of notice...

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