35 Ga. App. 40 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1926
1. This case is controlled by the ruling of the Supreme Court in Shorter v. Williams, 74 Ga. 539, where it was held that “Where application was made for the guardianship of
2. The court did not err-in overruling petitioner’s motion to dismiss his application, where, in response to the citation which had been issued and published therein, the defendant in error had appeared and asked that she hersqlf be appointed under the proceeding thus instituted. The petition must be taken to have been instituted in the interest of the child, and not in the interest of the person applying, and it is the 'interest of the child which the court having jurisdiction is charged to protect.
Judgment affirmed.