Baum v. Hartmann

Mr. Presiding Justice Higbee

delivered the opinion of the court.

On August 3, 1894, Simon Baum was appointed by the County Court of St. Clair county guardian of his two children, Maria C. Baum, appellee, and Charles W. Baum, and gave bond as such guardian with Bernhard Hartmann and Jacob Spies as sureties. The sum of $3,400 belonging to his wards came into the hands of the guardian, with which on June 26, 1895, he purchased certain real estate in said county and at the same time executed and delivered to Hartmann and Spies a mortgage on the same to indemnify them as sureties on his said…