Cates v. Cates

SIMPSON, Justice.

This appeal is by Frances Cates, as guardian of the estate of Cande Cates, a minor, from a decree on final settlement in the Circuit Court in Equity of the estate of Cecil W. Cates, deceased. The only persons interested are the administrator, John Lewis Cates, and the minor Cande Cates, brother and sister.

It appears from the evidence that Cecil Cates, the intestate and father of the parties, had been engaged in the milk hauling business at least twenty years. In this business the intestate owned (with certain minor incumbrances) the milk hauling equipment, e. g. three truck…