Seago v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jersey County; the Hon. G. W. Herdman, Judge, presiding. On the 23d of October, 1875, Elizabeth Reddish (now Foyles) was appointed by the Probate Court of Jersey County guardian of her five minor children, including Luella J. Reddish. She was required to give bond with two sureties in the penal sum of §1,700. The bond was given, purporting to be executed by ¡Nathan Campbell and W. R. Seago, the appellant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jersey County; the Hon. G. W. Herdman, Judge, presiding. On the 23d of October, 1875, Elizabeth Reddish (now Foyles) was appointed by the Probate Court of Jersey County guardian of her five minor children, including Luella J. Reddish. She was required to give bond with two sureties in the penal sum of §1,700. The bond was given, purporting to be executed by ¡Nathan Campbell and W. R. Seago, the appellant. On the 23d of August, 1878, she made a report showing that she had on hand as guardian of said wards the sum of §492.30. Again, on the 12th of January, 1884,…
1Opinion of the CourtConger, J.
We think the court erred in excluding from the jury the report made by Mrs. Foyles on the 12th of January, 1884. It tended to show that originally the mother intended to charge her daughter Huella for board at the rate of fifty cents per week, and if such was her intention and she actually furnished her daughter with such board, at reasonable prices, it would have been pro tanto a payment to her daughter of which the sureties upon her bond could avail themselves, notwithstanding the mother might afterward desire to be charged with it solely for the purpose of enabling her daughter to recover…
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