Monastes v. Catlin

By the Court, Watson, J.:

This action is brought by the appellant, David Monastes, guardian of the estate of Peggy McLane, a person of unsound mind, against John Catlin, the respondent, to recover the possession of a tract of land situated in Columbia county. It is admitted that before the guardian’s sale sought to be proven by defendant, Peggy McLane was the owner in her own right in fee-simple of the tract of land in dispute, and that unless the order of the county court for Columbia county, which we are about to examine, was valid and sufficient to constitute C. A. Bradbury her guardian,…