Gilbert v. Guptill
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Elgin, Kane county; Hon. Richard G. Montony, Judge. This is an appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Elgin, in the county of Kane. It appears the appellant, Gilbert, was appointed guardian of Daniel H. Pinneo, a minor, then about eighteen years of age, by the County Court of Kane county, on the eighteenth of April, 1851, and executed a bond with security, and took upon himself the duties of the office.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Elgin, Kane county; Hon. Richard G. Montony, Judge. This is an appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Elgin, in the county of Kane. It appears the appellant, Gilbert, was appointed guardian of Daniel H. Pinneo, a minor, then about eighteen years of age, by the County Court of Kane county, on the eighteenth of April, 1851, and executed a bond with security, and took upon himself the duties of the office. Daniel was a son of John Pinneo, deceased, who liad died possessed of property in Ohio, and leaving this minor, and another…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
The appellant, on Ms assignment of error, makes these points: 1. That appellant was not liable to render an account in this matter, for the reason that more than five years had elapsed after his ward arrived at age, before the commencement of these proceedings. 2. If the statute was no bar to the proceedings, yet all the court could have done was to state an account, having no power to render a judgment or enforce the payment of the same. 3. That if this power existed, the appellant having loaned the money for the benefit of his ward, he cannot be charged with the loss of the money, he having…
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