Maryland Casualty Co. v. Waldrep

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

The appeal in this case presents the question of the liability of the surety on a guardian’s bond. In August, 1929, the county court of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, appointed John H. Merlcle guardian of the estates of Una, Dora, Irene, and Alva Hembree, minors, to succeed a former guardian, and fixed his bond at $10,000. Merkle gave the required bond with the Fidelity Union Casualty Company as surety and otherwise qualified; in September, he purchased a dairy farm consisting of four hundred and forty-six acres with improvements thereon near Neosho, Missouri, and paid…