In Re the Judicial Settlement of Accounts of Bolton
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from so much of an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, made January 11, 1899, as affirms certain portions of a final decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Rensselaer county judicially settling the accounts of the executors of Joseph Bolton as to his guardianship of Grace A. Small, a deceased minor.
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Appeal from so much of an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, made January 11, 1899, as affirms certain portions of a final decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Rensselaer county judicially settling the accounts of the executors of Joseph Bolton as to his guardianship of Grace A. Small, a deceased minor. On the 5th of December, 1895, Joseph Bolton was appointed general guardian of Grace A. Small, a minor, by the Surrogate’s Court of Rensselaer county. On the 23d of December, 1895, the general guardian presented a petition to-the surrogate…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
The question presented by this appeal is whether the investment of a small part of the personal property of a minor, married and keeping house with her husband, in the purchase of a suitable dwelling house to be used as a residence for herself and family, made by her general guardian at her request and pursuant to an order of the surrogate, changed the money so invested from personal property into real estate, with reference to the statutes of descents and distributions ?
Mrs. Small, although a minor, was more than eighteen years of age, and, hence, had the right to make a valid disposition of…
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