McKeen v. Waldron
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This action was brought in the district court for Hennepin county, by the plaintiff as guardian of the persons and estate of the minor children of Delos T. Jones, deceased, against the defendant Waldron as principal, and the defendant Kruckeberg as surety, and the defendants Alvira Bidwell and others as heirs at law and legatees of M. D. Bidwell, deceased, also a surety, in a bond given by defendant Waldron, as administrator of Delos T. Jones.
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This action was brought in the district court for Hennepin county, by the plaintiff as guardian of the persons and estate of the minor children of Delos T. Jones, deceased, against the defendant Waldron as principal, and the defendant Kruckeberg as surety, and the defendants Alvira Bidwell and others as heirs at law and legatees of M. D. Bidwell, deceased, also a surety, in a bond given by defendant Waldron, as administrator of Delos T. Jones. A jury was waived, and the action tried before Young, J., who found that Waldron was the administrator of Delos T. Jo'nes, duly appointed by the…
1Opinion of the CourtGilfillan, C. J.
This case, as does almost every case •coming here upon the same statute, shows the urgent need for a thorough revision of the statutes regulating the settlement of the estates of deceased persons. Those interested in such estates are frequently widows and infants, incapable of adequately protecting their interests. The administration of the estates is mainly controlled by the probate courts, the judges of which are oftentimes men not learned in the law. The statutes on the subject should be as simple and clear as language can make them. On the contrary, they are the *468most complicated, obscure…
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- State Ex Rel. First Minneapolis Trust Co. v. FosseenSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1934
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