Crawford v. Broomhead

•Simmons, Chief Justice.

' The only question for our determination in this case is, whether prior to the act of November 11, 1889, relating to ¡sales of the estates of wards for reinvestment, the ordinary had jurisdiction and authority to grant to the guardian of a minor child an order authorizing the guardian to sell unproductive real estate for the purpose of reinvesting the proceeds of the sale in other and productive property. Prior to the act of 1827 (Cobb’s Big. 325, 326), there were •séveral acts on the subject of sales by executors, administrators and guardians; and that act, after…