Maddox v. Gossom

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Peters:

In July, 1853, Richard Maddox, of Trimble county, made, and published his will in which he bequeathed to his daughter, Adarena Maddox, then of tender years, twenty-three hundred dollars, and appointed appellee her testamentary” guardian, directing in the same sentence, in which the appointment is made, “that the interest of her money only be used to educate her, and to furnish other necessaries of life.”

He was also nominated as executor in the will, both of these trusts he understood.

*510In September, 1865, he made a settlement of his accounts with the judge of…