CONSERVATORSHIP OF MITCHELL

Docket No. 59029.

114 Cal.App.3d 606 (1981)

170 Cal. Rptr. 759

Conservatorship of the Person and Estate of THOMAS MITCHELL. GORDON W. TREHARNE, as Public Guardian, etc., Petitioner and Respondent, v. THOMAS MITCHELL, Objector and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

January 14, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Susan L. Wolk, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Objector and Appellant.

John H. Larson, County Counsel, and Jonathan B. Crane, Deputy County Counsel, for Petitioner and Respondent.


OPINION

BEACH, J.

Following a court hearing, appellant was found to be gravely disabled as a result of a mental disorder, and the public guardian was appointed as his conservator under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS Act).1 On appeal, appellant challenges (1) the trial court's admission of the psychiatrist's opinion on appellant's mental condition, and (2) the sufficiency of the evidence on the issue...

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