Bass v. Cook
Supreme Court of Alabama
In error to a decree of the Orphans Court of Dallas county. By the record in this case, it appeared that the defendant in error, on the eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty, was appointed a guardian of Lawrence Bass, by the Judge of the Orphans-Court of Dallas.
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In error to a decree of the Orphans Court of Dallas county. By the record in this case, it appeared that the defendant in error, on the eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty, was appointed a guardian of Lawrence Bass, by the Judge of the Orphans-Court of Dallas. In February, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the defendant made, before the Judge of that Court, a final settlement of his guardianship accounts, — in the course of which it appeared that the ward had lived with the defendant from March, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, to the summer of eighteen hundred and thirty-four;…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, J.
— It is not necessary to a decision of this case, that we should determine whether the defendant can be charged in any form of proceeding for the work and labor of the plaintiff’s ward, while subject to the guardianship of the defendant. If the profits resulting from this source did not constitute a part of the trust estate, in the adjustment of the defendant’s accounts, they should not have been considered, unless to ascertain the expense to which he liad been subjected, in taking care of the person of his then late ward. That they were part of the estate of the ward entrusted to the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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