Bryce v. Wynn
Supreme Court of Georgia
Guardian and ward. Appointment. Judgment. Before Judge Buchanan. Carroll Superior Court. April Term, 1873. Susan A. Bryce, by her next friend, petitioned the Ordinary of Carroll county for the removal of Sloman Wynn, her present guardian, and for the appointment of some other suitable person selected by her, subject to the approval of said Ordinary.
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Guardian and ward. Appointment. Judgment. Before Judge Buchanan. Carroll Superior Court. April Term, 1873. Susan A. Bryce, by her next friend, petitioned the Ordinary of Carroll county for the removal of Sloman Wynn, her present guardian, and for the appointment of some other suitable person selected by her, subject to the approval of said Ordinary. She showed that said Wynn had been appointed at the June term, 1861, of the Court of Ordinary of said county, when petitioner was but five years of age; that she had then arrived at the age of sixteen years, and desired to exercise her right of…
1Opinion of the Court
Trippe, Judge.
1. It was held in the case of Pitts vs. Cherry, 14 Georgia Reports, 594, that a ward in Georgia, on arriving at the age of fourteen, has the right to choose his guardian, subject to the approval of the Ordinary. We do not think the right is taken away by the Code. Section 1806, new Code, in giving the privilege to a minor over fourteen years of age, who has no guardian, of selecting a guardian, was not intended to change the law in this respect. The Act of 1850, Cobb’s Digest, 338, implies what is specially provided in the section of the Code referred to.
2. Before the new…
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