Smoot v. Richards, Guardian

This suit was instituted by the appellee, W.Q. Richards, as guardian of Marcus L., Una A., and Lelia Richards, to recover from H.B. Smoot and W.J. Hatch the sum of $5904, money received by them from the present guardian and from Hattie A. Crisp, a former guardian of said minors, upon the ground that the guardians had misappropriated the funds belonging to the estates of said wards in purchasing lands therewith as an investment from appellants to said amount, without an order of the probate court of Scurry County, where the guardianship was pending, confirming and approving such investment,…