Napier v. Jones
Supreme Court of Georgia
Guardian and ward. Assignment of error. Ordinance of 1865. Compounding interest. Before Judge Robinson. Morgan Superior Court.
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Guardian and ward. Assignment of error. Ordinance of 1865. Compounding interest. Before Judge Robinson. Morgan Superior Court. March Term, 1871. Plaintiffs in error filed their bill against defendant in error and charged that Elizabeth J. Napier, the wife of Briggs H. Napier, is the grand-daughter of defendant in error, and also of one Elias Reid, formerly of the city of Savannah; that Elias Reid died in the year 1854, leaving a large estate, one-half of which was bequeathed to said Elizabeth J. Napier and her brother and sister; that during the same year defendant in error was appointed…
1Opinion of the Court
Montgomery, Judge.
This case was an attempt by the plaintiffs in error to hold the defendant in error liable as guardian of the wife of Napier for mismanagement of his ward’s estate.
1. The guardian’s accounts were long and complicated, running through a series of years, embracing the whole period of the war. The waste charged was that he had mixed his ward’s funds with his own; that he had credited himself with Confederate money paid during the war, to make the credit side of his account balance the debt side, for which he was liable in gold; that he sold a couple of negroes for $1,500, for…
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