Penniman v. French
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an appeal from a decree of the Court of Probate allow ing an account of the appellee, as he was guardian of a person nor compos. Penniman claimed and entered the appeal as uncle and next friend of the non compos. By the statute passed March 12, 1784, entitled " An Act tor establishing Courts of Probate,” it is enacted that “ any person aggrieved at any order, sentence,, decree, or denial, of any judge of probate, may appeal therefrom to the Supreme Court oi Probate.”
1Per curiam
The office of guardian to a non compos is a very irksome one, and ought not to be made more so by vexatious ap *135peals. The statute of March 10,1784, entitled “ An Act empowering the judges of probate to appoint guardians to minors and others,” provides that the judges bf probate, upon the complaint of any heir, creditor, or other person having lawful right or claims in expectancy to the estate of any idiot, lunatic, non compos, or distracted person, as well as the guardians, * may [ * 141 | proceed with any person or persons suspected of concealing, embezzling, or conveying away, any of the…
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