Supreme Court of Iowa April 25, 1973, No. 55422 (Tyler v. Tyler)

REES, Justice.

Elizabeth Tyler died on December 13, 1971, intestate, at the age of 61 years, a patient at the State Hospital at Woodward. She had been mentally and physically incompetent all of her life, and had been a patient at the Woodward hospital for many years prior to her death. She had been under guardianship since 1943. At the date of her death her guardian was a brother, O. D. Tyler, Jr.