Watson v. Stone
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Probate Court of Lowndes. In the matter of the final settlement of the accounts and vouchers of Warren T. Stone as guardian of Susan A. Y. Merriwether, a minor, now the wife of A. B. Watson.
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Lowndes. In the matter of the final settlement of the accounts and vouchers of Warren T. Stone as guardian of Susan A. Y. Merriwether, a minor, now the wife of A. B. Watson. The letters of guardianship were granted by said probate court on the 13th February, 1857. The guardian filed his accounts and vouchers for a settlement on the 30th September, 1865; and the final settlement was made on the 25th November, 1865. The appeal is prosecuted by Watson and wife, who assign as error the allowance of credits to the guardian for moneys invested by him in Confederate…
1Opinion of the CourtA. J. Walker, C. J.
The paper which was probably considered as a bill of exceptions, can not be regarded as such. That does not, however, affect the merits of the case; for the questions upon which the rights of the parties depend, are presented in a revisable form in the decree of the court. — Session Acts, 1857-8, p. 244.
Making reasonable intendments in favor of the correctness of the decree, we find from it that the appellee, the guardian of Mrs. Watson (then a minor), on the 24th June, 1863, invested four thousand dollars of his ward’s funds in Confederate eight-per-cent, bonds; that he reported such…
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