Bond v. Lockwood
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Clinton county; the Hon. Silas L. Bryan, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery instituted in the court helow by Joshua S. Bond and Laura Bond, his wife, against Eben B. Lockwood, to compel him to render an account as guardian of . the complainant Laura.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Clinton county; the Hon. Silas L. Bryan, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery instituted in the court helow by Joshua S. Bond and Laura Bond, his wife, against Eben B. Lockwood, to compel him to render an account as guardian of . the complainant Laura. The Circuit Court entered a decree in favor of the complainants for the sum of $766.33, from which they took this appeal to the Supreme Court in the First Grand Division; but by agreement of parties, the cause was afterwards removed upon change of venue into the Second Grand Division, where it was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beckwith
On the 9th day of October, 1850, the appellee was appointed by the County Court of St. Clair county, guardian of Laura Hart (then between six and seven years of age), and of Lewis Hart (then about five years of age), the children of his wife by a former husband. Lewis Hart died on the 8th day of August, 1854; Mrs. Lockwood, the mother of the two children, died intestate August 26, 1854; Laura married Joshua S. Bond on the 18th day of October, 1860, and after she had arrived at the age of eighteen years, she and her husband filed their bill against the appellee for an account.
The bill alleges…
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