Riley v. Taylor's Guardian

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

A fund of $500.25, made up of royalty from oil operations and belonging to Homer Bartlett as a joint owner with his brothers and sisters of a leased farm in Ohio county, by some means, not disclosed by the record, came into the hands of appellant and defendant below, R. R. Riley, as custodian, or agreed trustee, to be held by him until its owner could be discovered or until he should be directed by the court to whom to pay it. Essie May Taylor was and is -the only child of Homer Bartlett, and consequently his only heir, if he is dead, and her…