SEC. 93-13-123. Persons of unsound mind; guardian for nonresident.
The chancery court of any county in which may be situated the property or any part thereof, or debt due to, or right of action of any person who shall have been adjudicated to be of unsound mind by proper proceedings in another state; or of a citizen of this state of unsound mind who is confined out of this state in an asylum for the insane, shall have jurisdiction to appoint a guardian of the estate of such person of unsound mind. The chancery court of the county of residence of such persons shall likewise have the aforementioned jurisdiction.
SOURCES: Codes, Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 397; 1930, Sec. 1896; 1942, Sec. 432; Laws, 1914, ch. 159; 1920, ch. 317; 1956, ch. 210, Secs. 1, 2, eff. July 1, 1956.